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[spə:]1) (a small instrument with a sharp point or points that a rider wears on his heels and digs into the horse's sides to make it go faster.) ostroga2) (anything that urges a person to make greater efforts: He was driven on by the spur of ambition.) spodbuda•- spur on* * *I [spə:]nounostroga (jezdeca, petelina); botany bodica, trn; figuratively spodbuda; ladijski kljun; naprava za plezanje po (drevesnem) deblu; architecture podpornik, opornik; zunanje mestne utrdbe; vrh, ki štrli iz gorske verige; gorski obronek; razrast, razvejenostto act on the spur of the moment — ravnati brez premišljanja, impulzivno, spontanohe needs the spur figuratively njega je treba spodbujatito need the spur — potrebovati ostroge (spodbude); biti počasen, medel, neodločento put (to set) spurs to the horse — spodbosti konja z ostrogo; figuratively spodbujatito win one's spurs history postati vitez, figuratively odlikovati se, postati slaven, pridobiti si čast in slavoII [spə:]transitive verbspodbosti (konja) z ostrogo; natakniti ostroge (na čevlje); figuratively priganjati, spodbujati (često on); pospešiti; intransitive verb spodbosti konja; hitro jezditi, hiteti, podvizati seto spur a willing horse figuratively pridnega priganjati k deluto spur on (forward) — poganjati naprej (konja), dreviti (konja), jahati v največjem diru
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