Collocations Flashcards
Spend time together
Kartu praleisti laika
Social framwork
Socialine struktura
Personal development
Asmeninis tobulejimas
Promote economic growth
Skatinti ekonomini automatically
A mark of success
Sekmes zenklas
Undesirable breakage of society
Visuomenes skaldymas
Communications and technological revoliution
Bendravimo ir technologine revoliucija
Invest time in developing themselves personally and professionally
Investuoti laika i asmenini ir profesini tobulejima
Major challenges
Dideli issukiai
To express desire
Isreikti nora
Ultimate dream
Didziausia svajone
A dead end job
Cant get a promotion, no prospects of advancement
Keep your nose to the grindstone
To stay focused on your work
Galastuvas
A real slave driver
Bad boss
To be up to your ears in work
Tureti darbo iki ausu
A carrot and stick aproach
Encouragement and punishment. To encourage work/ productivity/ incentives
Getting a foot in the door
Ikisti viena koja
To be deluged with work
Tureti daug darbo
To be snowed under with work
Buti apkrautam darbu
To be swamped with work
Buti iklimpusiam darbe
Element of surprize
Netiketumo
To make ends meet
Sudurti gala su galu finansuskai
If you have more than enough to make rnds meet, you wont necessary be any hapier
Scarcely recall
Vargu beprisimenu
Profound mistrust
Gilus nepasitikejimas
Demonstrated a good knowledge
Pademonstravo gilias zinias
To have a good education
Tureti gera issilavinoma
Contradictory behaviour
Priestaringas/ nesuderinamas elgesys
Life expectancy
Tiketina gyvenimo trukme
It strikes me as
It strikes me that
Sukrecia
This it what means to me
Very noticible
Stronger than it seams to me
Marginally/ fractionally/ slightly smaller
A bit smaller
Considerablt/ significantly larger
Much/ a lot bigger
Increasingly diverse
More and more diverse
Fewer reasons
Less reasons
Strikingly/ completely/ vastly different
Very different
Important/ significant change
A big change
Large/ enormous mountain
A big mountain
Many children
Lots of children
Significant/ substantial amount of resources
Important resources
Developing/ under developed country
A poor country
Wealthy/ well- developed/ developed country
Rich country
Wealthy/ well-off person
A rich person
Poor quality
Bad quality
Unsatisfactory behaviour
Bad behaviour
A pet hate
A pet peave
Smt that arouses strong feelings
One of my pet peaves a prople who chew loudly