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37 Cards in this Set
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hailed |
announced publicly how good or important something is/ okrzykniety |
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hampering |
making it difficult to do something |
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backlog |
a number of things that should have been done before now/ zaległości w pracy |
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prediction |
what you think will happen in the future |
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chap |
facet, jegomość, człowiek |
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substantial changes |
istotna zmiana |
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a lack of clues |
brak sladów |
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mum's the word
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keep it a secret
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my lips are sealed
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I won't tell anybody
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keep it under wraps
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keep it a secret
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a little dickie bird has told me
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somebody has told me something in private
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keep it to yourself
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don't tell anybody / keep it a secret
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to let the cat out of the bag
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tell somebody something that was supposed to be a secret
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supposed to
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powinien/ miał
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riot
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zamieszki/bunt
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batons
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heavy sticks used as weapons by police/ pałki
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clashes
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fights or battles between groups of people/ starcia
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street vendors
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people who sell things in the street rather than in a shop/ uliczni sprzedawcy
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warning shots
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shot fired by police or army which are not intended to harm people but to show force
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crackdown
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strong action taken to stop illegal or bad activity/ rozprawa
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food stalls |
stoiska z jedzeniem |
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bricks |
cegły, kostka |
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peddler |
domokrążca |
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crack on |
continue doing something quickly |
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crack up |
start laughing |
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measurably |
wymiernie |
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outsider |
(here) a competitor with little chance of winning |
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refurbishing |
making changes to a building to improve it |
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adapting |
changing behaviour to suit a new situation |
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I've had it up to here |
I have suffered enough because of something or someone |
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it's driving me up the wall |
it's making me very angry |
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don't blow a fuse! |
don't lose your temper |
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fed up to the back teeth |
angry because a situation has continued for too long |
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like a bear with a sore head! |
in a very bad mood |
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sore /sore head |
ból |
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at the end of his tether |
so annoyed he can't carry on |
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losing it |
becoming very angry or upset |
