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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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[ho:s]1) (a large four-footed animal which is used to pull carts etc or to carry people etc.) konj2) (a piece of apparatus used for jumping, vaulting etc in a gymnasium.) konj•- horsefly
- horsehair
- horseman
- horsemanship
- horseplay
- horsepower
- horseshoe
- on horseback
- straight from the horse's mouth
- from the horse's mouth* * *I [hɔ:s]nounkonj, žrebec; military jezdeci, konjenica; lesen trinožnik; printing vlagalna deska; sport konj; slang prepovedan pripomoček v šoli; colloquially bankovec za ɜ funtov; American burka, vragolijasport buck-horse — kozafiguratively a dark horse — nepričakovan zmagovalecto flog a dead horse — mlatiti prazno slamo; zaman se truditihorse and foot — konjenica in pešadija; figuratively z vsemi sredstviAmerican hold your horses! — le mirno!you may take a horse to water, but you can't make him drink — s silo se ne da vsega dosečito play horse with s.o. — grobo s kom ravnatito roll up horse, foot, and guns — popolnoma premagatifiguratively do not spur a willing horse — ne priganjaj ubogljivega konjasea-horse — morski konj, tritonzoology morski konjiček; zoology mrož; military to horse! — na konje!wheel horse — zanesljiv delavec, garačII [hɔ:s]1.intransitive verbjahati;2.transitive verbzajahati, posaditi na konjacolloquially priganjati k delu; American colloquially to horse around — čas zapravljati, postopati
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