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1 hang about/around
1) (to stand around, doing nothing: I don't like to see all these youths hanging about (street-corners).) postopati2) (to be close to (a person) frequently: I don't want you hanging around my daughter.) vrteti se okrog -
2 send (someone) packing / send (someone) about his business
(to send (a person) away firmly and without politeness: He tried to borrow money from me again, but I soon sent him packing.) na kratko odpravitiEnglish-Slovenian dictionary > send (someone) packing / send (someone) about his business
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3 send (someone) packing / send (someone) about his business
(to send (a person) away firmly and without politeness: He tried to borrow money from me again, but I soon sent him packing.) na kratko odpravitiEnglish-Slovenian dictionary > send (someone) packing / send (someone) about his business
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4 send (someone) packing / send (someone) about his business
(to send (a person) away firmly and without politeness: He tried to borrow money from me again, but I soon sent him packing.) na kratko odpravitiEnglish-Slovenian dictionary > send (someone) packing / send (someone) about his business
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5 send (someone) packing / send (someone) about his business
(to send (a person) away firmly and without politeness: He tried to borrow money from me again, but I soon sent him packing.) na kratko odpravitiEnglish-Slovenian dictionary > send (someone) packing / send (someone) about his business
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6 slander
1. noun((the act of making) an untrue spoken, not written, statement about a person with the intention of damaging that person's reputation: That story about her is nothing but a wicked slander!) obrekovanje2. verb(to make such statements about (a person etc).) obrekovati* * *[slá:ndə]1.nounobrekovanje, kleveta, žaljenje časti; juridically ustno obrekovanje;2.transitive verbobrekovati, reči zoper (koga), opravljati (koga) -
7 image
['imi‹]1) (a likeness or copy of a person etc made of wood, stone etc: images of the saints.) podoba2) (a close likeness: She's the very image of her sister.) podoba3) (reflection: She looked at her image in the mirror.) podoba4) (mental picture: I have an image of the place in my mind.) predstava5) (the general opinion that people have about a person, company etc: our public image.) predstava* * *I [ímidž]nounpodoba, slika, kip, lik, prispodoba; poosebljenje; predstava (o čem)optics virtual image — navidezna slika, predstavaII [ímidž]transitive verbupodobiti, naslikati, predočiti si kaj, zrcalitito image to o.s. — živo si predstavljati, predočiti si kaj -
8 personal
1) (one's own: This is his personal opinion; The matter will have my personal attention.) oseben2) (private: This is a personal matter between him and me.) oseben3) (in person: The Prime Minister will make a personal appearance.) osebno4) ((making remarks which are) insulting, especially about a person's appearance etc: personal remarks; Don't be personal!) oseben* * *I [pɜ:sənəl]adjective ( personally adverb)osebenpersonal data — personalije, osebni podatkito become personal — postati oseben, zbadatiII [pɜ:sənəl]nounAmerican kratek časopisni članek o kom -
9 home truth
(a plain statement of something which is unpleasant but true (about a person, his behaviour etc) said directly to the person: It's time someone told him a few home truths.) čista resnica -
10 around
1. preposition, adverb1) (on all sides of or in a circle about (a person, thing etc): Flowers grew around the tree; They danced around the fire; There were flowers all around.) okrog, naokrog2) (here and there (in a house, room etc): Clothes had been left lying around (the house); I wandered around.) sem ter tja2. preposition(near to (a time, place etc): around three o'clock.) okoli3. adverb1) (in the opposite direction: Turn around!) naokrog2) (near-by: If you need me, I'll be somewhere around.) v bližini* * *I [əráund]adverbokoli, naokoli, približno; American v bližiniall around — povsod naokrog, okrog in okrogslang stick around — ostani v bližini!II [əráund]prepositionokrog, okoliaround the clock — dan in noč, nenehno -
11 dossier
['dosiei](a set of papers containing information etc about a person or a particular matter.) spisi* * *[dɔsiei]noun(sodni) spisi -
12 reputation
[repju'teiʃən](the opinion which people in general have about a person etc, a persons's abilities etc: That firm has a good/bad reputation; He has made a reputation for himself as an expert in computers; He has the reputation of being difficult to please; The scandal damaged his reputation.) sloves- reputed
- live up to one's reputation* * *[repjutéišən]nounsloves, ugled, ime, glas, čast, slava, reputacijato have a reputation for — biti (po)znan, slaven, na glasu zaradi česanot to justify one's reputation — ne upravičiti svojega slovesa, ne delati časti svojemu imenuto save (to lose, to ruin) one's reputation — rešiti (izgubiti, uničiti) svoj dober glas -
13 size up
(to form an opinion about a person, situation etc: He sized up the situation and acted immediately.) presoditi* * *transitive verb & intransitive verb določiti velikost, težo; colloquially oceniti, preceniti (kaj), presoditi; doseči (with s.th. kaj); postati večji; military razvrstiti (vojake) po velikosti -
14 testimonial
[-'mouniəl]noun (a (written) statement saying what one knows about a person's character, abilities etc: When applying for a job, one usually needs a testimonial from one's last employer.) priporočilo* * *[testimóunjəl]noun(policijsko) nravstveno spričevalo (o vedenju itd.); presoja, mnenje; priporočilno pismo; figuratively znak ali dokaz priznavanja; javno priznavanje, časten dar (v denarju) -
15 CV
[,si: 'vi:]((American résumé) ( abbreviation) curriculum vitae; a written account with details about a person's education, work experience etc that is often required when applying for a job.) življenjepis -
16 cv
[,si: 'vi:]((American résumé) ( abbreviation) curriculum vitae; a written account with details about a person's education, work experience etc that is often required when applying for a job.) življenjepis -
17 poison-pen letter
(an anonymous letter saying wicked things about a person etc.) žaljivo anonimno pismo -
18 tell on
1) (to have a bad effect on: Smoking began to tell on his health.) puščati sledove2) (to give information about (a person, usually if they are doing something wrong): I'm late for work - don't tell on me!) zatožiti -
19 argue
1) ((with with someone, about something) to quarrel with (a person) or discuss (something) with a person in a not very friendly way: I'm not going to argue; Will you children stop arguing with each other about whose toy that is!) pričkati se2) ((with for, against) to suggest reasons for or for not doing something: I argued for/against accepting the plan.) zavzemati se3) ((with into, out of) to persuade (a person) (not) to do something: I'll try to argue him into going; He argued her out of buying the dress.) prepričati4) (to discuss, giving one's reasoning: She argued the point very cleverly.) zagovarjati•- arguable- argument
- argumentative* * *[á:gju:]1.transitive verb(for, against) dokazovati, pobijati; pretresati; kazati;2.intransitive verbto argue against s.th. — nastopiti proti čemuit argues him to be an honest man — to dokazuje, da je poštenjakto argue s.o. into — pregovoriti koga (da kaj stori)to argue s.o. out of — odvrniti koga od česa -
20 home
[həum] 1. noun1) (the house, town, country etc where a person etc usually lives: I work in London but my home is in Bournemouth; When I retire, I'll make my home in Bournemouth; Africa is the home of the lion; We'll have to find a home for the kitten.) dom2) (the place from which a person, thing etc comes originally: America is the home of jazz.) domovina3) (a place where children without parents, old people, people who are ill etc live and are looked after: an old folk's home; a nursing home.) dom4) (a place where people stay while they are working: a nurses' home.) dom5) (a house: Crumpy Construction build fine homes for fine people; He invited me round to his home.) stanovanje, hiša2. adjective1) (of a person's home or family: home comforts.) domač2) (of the country etc where a person lives: home produce.) domač3) ((in football) playing or played on a team's own ground: the home team; a home game.) domač3. adverb1) (to a person's home: I'm going home now; Hallo - I'm home!) domov, doma2) (completely; to the place, position etc a thing is intended to be: He drove the nail home; Few of his punches went home; These photographs of the war brought home to me the suffering of the soldiers.) na cilj; do srca•- homeless- homely
- homeliness
- homing
- home-coming
- home-grown
- homeland
- home-made
- home rule
- homesick
- homesickness
- homestead
- home truth
- homeward
- homewards
- homeward
- homework
- at home
- be/feel at home
- home in on
- leave home
- make oneself at home
- nothing to write home about* * *I [hóum]adjectivedomač, hišni, doma narejen; notranji; točen, odličen; primeren (opomba)Home Guard — rezervna vojska na domačih tleh med 2. svetovno vojnoII [hóum]adverbdoma, domov; na cilj, na cilju; v srce, točnoto bring a crime home to s.o. — dokazati komu zločinto bring s.th. home to s.o. — prepričati koga o čem, predočiti, dokazati komufiguratively to come home to — ganiti, občutiti, priti do srcacurses come home to roost — kdor drugemu jemlje čast, jo sam izgubito drive s.th. home to s.o. — prigovarjati, prepričevati kogato hit ( —ali strike) home — v živo zadeti, pravo zadetito see s.o. home — spremiti koga domovIII [hóum]noundom, domačija, stanovanje; domovina; zavetišče; figuratively domača streha; sport figuratively ciljat home — doma, v domoviniat home in ( —ali on, with) — vajen česa, doma (v računstvu)away from home — odsoten, odpotoval, v tujinicharity begins at home — vsakdo je samemu sebi najbližji, bog je najprej sebi brado ustvarilnot at home to — ne biti doma za goste, ne sprejemati gostovlong ( —ali last) home — zadnji dom, grobto draw to one's long home — bližati se koncu, umiratito eat s.o. out of the house and home — spraviti koga ob vse, živeti na tuj računto make o.s. at home — biti kakor doma, vgnezditi se pri komto make s.o. feel at home — potruditi se, da se kdo počuti kot domaIV [hóum]intransitive verb & transitive verbvrniti se domov, pripeljati domov, spraviti pod streho; voditi pristanek letala z radarjem
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