Deck no. 23 Flashcards
otrzymać pożyczkę na coś (np. w celu zakupu domu)
to close on something
In 2018, in Zaslav’s last major move before the Warner deal, Discovery closed on its $14.6 billion acquisition of Scripps Networks Interactive, which is how Zaslav came to be the steward of HGTV, Food Network, Travel Channel, DIY Network, and a smattering of other properties.
nakłonić kogoś
to cajole somebody into doing something
For much of the post–Cold War era, the United States was so powerful that few countries dared challenge it even if they wanted to. Others were cajoled by American soft power into wanting what the United States wanted.
rehabilitować (się), kompensować (wady)
to redeem
“He’s back in his groove,” said Gene Munster, managing partner at the venture-capital firm Loup Ventures, an investor in Enjoy. Mr. Munster said he believes in Mr. Johnson’s latest vision, and if the company can deliver on it, “He’ll be redeemed.”
okazja do porozmawiania
gabfest
Most of the arriving luminaries had simply ignored the assembled reporters, whose job was to stand around and shout questions that they knew probably wouldn’t be answered. But Zaslav obliged, which was lucky for the press, because he was the newsiest participant of the five-day gabfest, famous for its clandestine dealmaking.
tentative
niepewny (np. gest), nieśmiały (np. uśmiech)
Prominent company bosses, including some notorious for their links to the AKP, have begun to make tentative approaches to the centre right IYI party, says Umit Ozlale, one of its vice-presidents.
star-studded
pełen gwiazd (np. film)
Zaslav’s guy-next-door persona belies a social life that mere mortals can only dream of, exemplified by the star-studded Labor Day soirées that he and Pam had hosted until 2018.
z zaburzeniami słuchu, słabosłyszący
hard of hearing
Isaac wanted to meet with Pope John XXIII, but he was sent instead to the prefect of the Holy Office, Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, who then sent him to 83-year-old Andrea Cardinal Jullien, hoping that a meeting between two old men, both hard of hearing, would lead nowhere.
thawing
ocieplanie się, polepszanie się (o relacjach)
I’m asking him about this perceived thawing, this idea of a “different” Tom Brady.
to tiptoe around something
chodzić wokół czegoś na palcach
Perhaps most surprisingly, Brady, who has historically been loath to utter anything political—he used to tiptoe around his old friendship with Donald Trump—showed up with the Bucs at the White House in July and actually dared the third rail of political humor, deadpanning a 2020 election zinger to President Joe Biden.
to cajole somebody into doing something
nakłonić kogoś
For much of the post–Cold War era, the United States was so powerful that few countries dared challenge it even if they wanted to. Others were cajoled by American soft power into wanting what the United States wanted.
entuzjazm, zapał
gusto
“Time is the enemy,” Zaslav said. Mergers like this are always rolled out with bullish gusto. Sometimes, despite the best intentions, they turn out to be disasters.
a fair amount
spora ilość
“I said I’ve spent the last three years working with MTV and Discovery. I spent a fair amount of time with [Discovery chairman] John Hendricks going around the country trying to raise money and grow Discovery Channel.
middlebrow
pospolity
Zaslav is, in many ways, the mogul of Main Street America. That’s largely a virtue of the service-y middlebrow reality programming that his networks have turned into a cultural phenomenon, whether it’s cake competitions (Food Network), pimple popping (TLC), paranormal adventures (Travel Channel), home-renovation porn (HGTV), or, as I was binge-watching in my hotel room the night before our hangout, Shark Week (Discovery Channel).
ząb
chomper
He stepped forward with a big smile, revealing a set of chompers fit for a Colgate commercial, and stopped for a chat with CNBC’s Julia Boorstin.
gnębić (gdy kogoś gnębi jakiś problem lub pech)
to dog
Yet the Turkish president, surrounded by sycophants and dogged by rumours about his health, appears either unable or unwilling to listen to those urging him to change course.
free rein
wolna ręka
To defend the immutable principles of Christian modesty and chastity,’ the Council warned of the energies spent by the world of fashion, movies, and the press to shake the foundations of Christian morality, as if the Sixth Commandment was outmoded and free rein should be given to all passions, even those against nature.
przestrzenny
spatial
Users are represented by cartoonish avatar torsos with no legs, and spatial audio technology gives a heightened sense of presence — users hear from others around the room based on where they appear to be seated in the imaginary, shared space.
przełączać
to toggle
“I feel like I’m living two lives,” he says. “My football life and then my post-football life.” Toggling between both, he admits, is tiring.
monolog
soliloquy
I often ask young folks what they do. I can’t tell you how many times I hear, “I’m an activist.” My response is usually, “So what activity do you do?” Not picking up my ironic intonation, the answer usually is “social justice,” followed by a long soliloquy about patriarchies, systemic this or that, and the tragedy of food deserts.
verdant
zielony (kolor); pokryty bujną zielenią
That includes a street-level test kitchen and production studio, a wellness center, an exercise room, and a verdant rooftop terrace with views, to the northwest, of Hudson Yards, where WarnerMedia has been headquartered since 2019.
downright
wręcz
Later, in his autobiorgrpahy, he admitted knowing that the CIA was involved but tried to play down the scale of his involvement. Rothbard, however felt that Kristol was being disingenuous if not downright dishonest.
to bring up somebody
wychować kogoś (np. dziecko)
Buckley later described Schlamm, who possessed all the patronizing charm of the Viennese cafe intellectual along with the cultural solemnity of the Jew brought up under German culture, as one of his two closest partners in founding NR.
wymyślony; urojony
imaginary
Users are represented by cartoonish avatar torsos with no legs, and spatial audio technology gives a heightened sense of presence — users hear from others around the room based on where they appear to be seated in the imaginary, shared space.
skrzyżować coś z czymś (dwie rośliny, dwa gatunki zwierząt)
to cross something with something
For the young people who buy his books, watch and rewatch his talks, and write social media odes to his genius, Thiel is like Ayn Rand crossed with one of her fictional characters.
przyprowadzić kogoś ze sobą; przynieść coś ze sobą
to bring along
Zaslav had brought along Discovery’s chief corporate operating officer, David Leavy, and the company’s H.R. boss, Adria Alpert Romm. Their driver deposited them at George Clooney’s former bungalow so Zaslav could prepare.
wychować kogoś (np. dziecko)
to bring up somebody
Buckley later described Schlamm, who possessed all the patronizing charm of the Viennese cafe intellectual along with the cultural solemnity of the Jew brought up under German culture, as one of his two closest partners in founding NR.
meltdown
kryzys
Mr. White so perfectly dissects society’s mental meltdown, I’m worried he might end up canceled.
to draw up
sporządzić (np. list, raport)
Buckley’s sister Priscilla also worked for the CIA, as did almost everyone associated with founding National Review, including William Casey, who would later head the CIA. Casey drew up its legal documents.
mieć bzika na punkcie kogoś; ubustwiać
to dote
He’s a family man—a doting grandpa of two and a loving father to three ambitious millennials. (One works at CNN, one at Axios, and another is pursuing a master’s in education.) “He talks to his kids all the time,” said media investor Ken Lerer, who himself talks to Zaslav “almost every day.”
pimple
pryszcz
Zaslav is, in many ways, the mogul of Main Street America. That’s largely a virtue of the service-y middlebrow reality programming that his networks have turned into a cultural phenomenon, whether it’s cake competitions (Food Network), pimple popping (TLC), paranormal adventures (Travel Channel), home-renovation porn (HGTV), or, as I was binge-watching in my hotel room the night before our hangout, Shark Week (Discovery Channel).
właściciel (firmy, przedsiębiorstwa)
proprietor
Zaslav ordered a plate of scrambled eggs with lox and introduced me to the establishment’s third-generation proprietor, Gary Greengrass.
jawny; drastyczny (scena przemocy); bez ogródek (np. o wypowiedzi)
explicit
The Iran episode highlights an additional problem: the increasingly unilateral nature of U.S. economic pressure. Until recently, the United States had usually been able to impose financial sanctions with the explicit or implicit cooperation of allies.
klapa, niewypał
washout
He has also made the case for his political vision in college lectures, in speeches, and in his book Zero to One, which recounts his own personal journey from corporate law washout to dot-com billionaire.
wspierać w trudnej sytuacji (rząd, organizację, gospodarkę)
to prop up
Others believe that the president’s approach is more calculated. Burak Bilgehan Ozpek, a political scientist at Ankara’s TOBB University, says low interest rates and a cheap currency benefit the network of cronies, especially those in construction and tourism, who help prop up Erdogan’s government.
pachołek; sługus
lackey
President-elect Donald Trump was planted at a long table on the 25th floor of his Manhattan tower. Trump sat dead center, per custom, and, also per custom, looked deeply satisfied with himself. He was joined by his usual coterie of lackeys and advisers and, for a change, the heads of the largest technology companies in the world.
to cross something with something
skrzyżować coś z czymś (dwie rośliny, dwa gatunki zwierząt)
For the young people who buy his books, watch and rewatch his talks, and write social media odes to his genius, Thiel is like Ayn Rand crossed with one of her fictional characters.
to let rip
wybuchnąć, zacząć krzyczeć
Olivia, with her daughterly venomous scorn, then lets this perfect line rip: “Yeah. It’s not all about you, dad. It is time to recenter the narrative.” Mark shoots back, “That’s fine by me. I don’t want to be the center of the narrative. Believe me. Let’s center the narrative around, uh, Paula.” That’s Olivia’s friend, who happens to be, as today’s narrative calls it, a person of color.
pneumonia
zapalenie płuc
A recurring theme in my conversations with Zaslav’s nearest and dearest was his inveterate generosity. Canceling New Year’s Eve plans to spend the night in the hospital with a sick friend and a platter of Nobu sushi. Sending you chicken soup and matzo and fresh-squeezed orange juice when you’re home in bed with pneumonia. Flying a group of his oldest friends to Rome and hooking up a private tour of the Vatican to celebrate his 50th birthday.
dokładnie oceniać sytuację
to take stock of the situation
Poncins claimed the conservative majority had been taken entirely by surprise’lj by the November 1964 document. If so, they were regaining their composure, now that they had time to take stock of the situation.’’
prawomyślny, postępujący zgodnie z linią polityczną
on message
Still, Florida’s a different vibe. Anyone can see that. New England, coached by the stone-faced legend Bill Belichick, prided itself on its hive mind, in which the institution always superseded the individual. No one embodied this discipline more than Brady, who loyally stayed on message, seldom offering any comment that could become a locker-room distraction.
kryzys
meltdown
Mr. White so perfectly dissects society’s mental meltdown, I’m worried he might end up canceled.
zatoczyć koło, wrócić do punktu wyjścia
to come full circle
WITH THE MARRIAGE of Discovery and WarnerMedia, Zaslav’s career has come full circle. He started as a corporate lawyer in the mid-1980s working for LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, a now defunct firm that specialized in public utilities.
hard of hearing
z zaburzeniami słuchu, słabosłyszący
Isaac wanted to meet with Pope John XXIII, but he was sent instead to the prefect of the Holy Office, Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, who then sent him to 83-year-old Andrea Cardinal Jullien, hoping that a meeting between two old men, both hard of hearing, would lead nowhere.
babble
bełkot
“Recenter the narrative” is fatuous babble but somehow it means everything in today’s world. So many young folks I meet seem to have the same personal narrative: Change the world. Make the world a better place. I’m fine with that, but I often push back on how to accomplish it. Simply adding the word “sustainable” or “equity” doesn’t change the world.
tajny, potajemny, sekretny
clandestine
Most of the arriving luminaries had simply ignored the assembled reporters, whose job was to stand around and shout questions that they knew probably wouldn’t be answered. But Zaslav obliged, which was lucky for the press, because he was the newsiest participant of the five-day gabfest, famous for its clandestine dealmaking.
bełkot
babble
“Recenter the narrative” is fatuous babble but somehow it means everything in today’s world. So many young folks I meet seem to have the same personal narrative: Change the world. Make the world a better place. I’m fine with that, but I often push back on how to accomplish it. Simply adding the word “sustainable” or “equity” doesn’t change the world.
na przykład
for one
Facebook, for one, had a history of severely limiting what third-party developers could do on its services, said Ethan Zuckerman, director of the Institute for Digital Public Infrastructure at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
jak zwykle
as per usual
It’s a warm summer afternoon, and there he is, via Zoom from Tampa Bay, in a T-shirt and AirPods, TB12 himself, looking tanned and relaxed and, per usual, a solid 10 years younger than his actual age, which is now, amazingly, 44.
to be looking over one’s shoulder
martwić się, obawiać się
Bureaucrats are looking over their shoulder, they say, amid warnings from Kilicdaroglu that they will be held to account for decisions they make now.
ukryty, dający się wywnioskować
implicit
The Iran episode highlights an additional problem: the increasingly unilateral nature of U.S. economic pressure. Until recently, the United States had usually been able to impose financial sanctions with the explicit or implicit cooperation of allies.
reticent
powściągliwy w słowach
But even the country’s largest business association, Tusiad, which is often reticent about criticising Erdogan’s policies, has warned that the government’s obsessive focus on growth at any cost is damaging the country.
potem, następnie, później
thereafter
How successful he proves could affect the future of online shopping. It will affect his legacy— whether he is remembered as a retailing trailblazer, or someone who did his best work at Apple only to struggle thereafter.
fatuous
bezmyślny, głupi
“Recenter the narrative” is fatuous babble but somehow it means everything in today’s world. So many young folks I meet seem to have the same personal narrative: Change the world. Make the world a better place. I’m fine with that, but I often push back on how to accomplish it. Simply adding the word “sustainable” or “equity” doesn’t change the world.
pryszcz
pimple
Zaslav is, in many ways, the mogul of Main Street America. That’s largely a virtue of the service-y middlebrow reality programming that his networks have turned into a cultural phenomenon, whether it’s cake competitions (Food Network), pimple popping (TLC), paranormal adventures (Travel Channel), home-renovation porn (HGTV), or, as I was binge-watching in my hotel room the night before our hangout, Shark Week (Discovery Channel).
promień (światła)
beam
One window off to the left, high up in the ceiling, is open, and a long beam of dust- and smoke-filled light descends diagonally to the carved, wooden choir benches otT to the right.
nagły koniec
screeching halt
WHEN THE WORLD came to a screeching halt in March 2020, Zaslav found himself in one of the most difficult moments of his career. For starters, a number of his employees were ill, including three he’d recently been in meetings with. (Zaslav dodged the bullet.) No one was hospitalized, but some were sick enough to be monitoring oxygen levels and praying they didn’t deteriorate.
a shot across the bows
sygnał ostrzegawczy (że się czegoś nie popiera i będzie temu przeciwdziałać)
We Christian innocents, she wrote, have been duped into our present godless condition by the unholy triumvirate of communism, psychoanalysis and relativity. These three symbolized by Marx, Freud and Einstein, are the result of the messianic impulse of the religiously frustrated Jewish ego. It didn’t take long for the Jews to react to this shot across their bow.
to unburden
wywnętrzać się, zwierzać się (ze zmartwień, sekretów)
The man is indisputably a brilliant quarterback, one of the great champions in sports history, and, of course, with his wife, Gisele Bündchen, one half of one of the galaxy’s starriest couples—but candidly unburdening his innermost thoughts to the media?
installment
odcinek (serialu), część (np. trylogii)
In the first installment, Zaslav gave a tour of his home office, which consisted of a small desk outfitted with an iMac and a conference phone. The week-four video featured a coffee table covered in classic board games and a copy of Taschen’s “SUMO-size” illustrated history of the Rolling Stones (Zaslav’s favorite band).
dotrzymać obietnicę
to deliver on a promise
“He’s back in his groove,” said Gene Munster, managing partner at the venture-capital firm Loup Ventures, an investor in Enjoy. Mr. Munster said he believes in Mr. Johnson’s latest vision, and if the company can deliver on it, “He’ll be redeemed.”
czuć się obco
to feel out of place
To have one of the squares in a group video chat “filled up by a cartoon character that speaks to you is not going to feel that out of place”, predicted Jared Spataro, head of Teams.
stretch
tu: okres, czas
He is grateful for his time in New England. How could he not be? It was the most successful stretch of football anyone’s ever played—all those championships, Super Bowls, division titles, never a losing season since becoming the starter.
w zanadrzu
up one’s sleeve
I asked him before he had to jump off our Zoom for a parade of meetings with producers and agents and talent and other Hollywood folk. Is there yet another megadeal up his sleeve? Will Warner Bros. Discovery need to get bigger still?
to slander
szkalować
This people was predestined to receive the Messiah and has long been waiting for him for thousands of years and was completely absorbed in this hope and certitude, but at the very moment, that is to say, when Christ came and spoke and showed himself, not only did they not recognize him, but fought him, slandered him, abused him and finally put him to death.’’
co drugi
every other
Every other Friday during the frigid winter months, he and Pam would meet up with Peggy and Richard Gelfond, the CEO of IMAX, under heat lamps outside the American Hotel in Sag Harbor. “We were like the only ones there,” Gelfond said.
to bring along
przyprowadzić kogoś ze sobą; przynieść coś ze sobą
Zaslav had brought along Discovery’s chief corporate operating officer, David Leavy, and the company’s H.R. boss, Adria Alpert Romm. Their driver deposited them at George Clooney’s former bungalow so Zaslav could prepare.
innate
wrodzony
He is obviously he’s kind of superhuman in stature and looks and charisma and all those things, but he has an innate ability to always laugh at himself.
pokonać, dowalić, bić
to pummel
It’s defiant to the point of being comical. Athletes aren’t supposed to be so good for so long—in any sport, much less a sport in which the opposition is trying to pummel you to the ground.
unlikely
niezwykły, dziwny
So far, their unlikely alliance of the leftist CHP, rightwing IYI, Kurds and other smaller parties has managed to stay united despite Erdogan’s persistent attempts to break it up. But there could be a messy showdown over the choice of a unity candidate to run against the president.
lackey
pachołek; sługus
President-elect Donald Trump was planted at a long table on the 25th floor of his Manhattan tower. Trump sat dead center, per custom, and, also per custom, looked deeply satisfied with himself. He was joined by his usual coterie of lackeys and advisers and, for a change, the heads of the largest technology companies in the world.
zbiorowa świadomość
hive mind
Still, Florida’s a different vibe. Anyone can see that. New England, coached by the stone-faced legend Bill Belichick, prided itself on its hive mind, in which the institution always superseded the individual. No one embodied this discipline more than Brady, who loyally stayed on message, seldom offering any comment that could become a locker-room distraction.
skrywać
to belie
Zaslav’s guy-next-door persona belies a social life that mere mortals can only dream of, exemplified by the star-studded Labor Day soirées that he and Pam had hosted until 2018.
mores
obyczaje, zwyczaje
As Italian director Federico Fellini was saying in films like La Dolce Vita, American films as the vehicle for American mores were undermining the traditional way of life in Catholic Europe and in Italy in particular.
domicile
miejsce zamieszkania
He picked up his laptop and gave me a tour of the swanky bungalow that serves as his West Coast domicile until the Woodland property is completed. It has a private pool and giant portrait of Elizabeth Taylor, who spent six of her eight honeymoons at the hotel.
in lieu of
zamiast; w miejsce
It should come as no surprise that they have opted to endure economic pain in lieu of making such massive concessions.
for starters
na początek, na dzień dobry
WHEN THE WORLD came to a screeching halt in March 2020, Zaslav found himself in one of the most difficult moments of his career. For starters, a number of his employees were ill, including three he’d recently been in meetings with. (Zaslav dodged the bullet.) No one was hospitalized, but some were sick enough to be monitoring oxygen levels and praying they didn’t deteriorate.
venom
jad; złośliwość
Olivia, with her daughterly venomous scorn, then lets this perfect line rip: “Yeah. It’s not all about you, dad. It is time to recenter the narrative.” Mark shoots back, “That’s fine by me. I don’t want to be the center of the narrative. Believe me. Let’s center the narrative around, uh, Paula.” That’s Olivia’s friend, who happens to be, as today’s narrative calls it, a person of color.
otwarte (pytanie); luźna (uwaga)
open-ended
On the eve of the COP26 climate summit, that began on Sunday, Biden hinted at unspecified retaliation against Russia and Saudi Arabia if they didn’t increase oil output soon. The open-ended threat did not persuade the Opec+ oil exporter group to adjust its production quotas at a meeting yesterday.
chandelier
żyrandol
In the center nave there are a few chandeliers with a few dimly glowing bulbs, but for the most part the church is dark.
wyłapać coś, zauważyć coś
to pick up
I often ask young folks what they do. I can’t tell you how many times I hear, “I’m an activist.” My response is usually, “So what activity do you do?” Not picking up my ironic intonation, the answer usually is “social justice,” followed by a long soliloquy about patriarchies, systemic this or that, and the tragedy of food deserts.
wręcz
downright
Later, in his autobiorgrpahy, he admitted knowing that the CIA was involved but tried to play down the scale of his involvement. Rothbard, however felt that Kristol was being disingenuous if not downright dishonest.
frenzy
szał, szum, szaleństwo
Enjoy is one of many companies to take advantage of the frenzy around SPACs. Investors have poured billions of dollars into these so-called blank-check companies, which are traded on exchanges with the goal of merging with a private company, such as Enjoy.
to brush aside
odsuwać na bok
They brush aside concerns that elements of Turkey’s deep state — which includes the intelligence service, police, military and criminal elements, and has links to Erdogan’s ultranationalist coalition partner — could move to prop up an ailing president.
tu: jeszcze (lepszy/większy)
(bigger/better) still
I asked him before he had to jump off our Zoom for a parade of meetings with producers and agents and talent and other Hollywood folk. Is there yet another megadeal up his sleeve? Will Warner Bros. Discovery need to get bigger still?
gabfest
okazja do porozmawiania
Most of the arriving luminaries had simply ignored the assembled reporters, whose job was to stand around and shout questions that they knew probably wouldn’t be answered. But Zaslav obliged, which was lucky for the press, because he was the newsiest participant of the five-day gabfest, famous for its clandestine dealmaking.
sokół
falcon
“It’s from The Maltese falcon, which is a Warner Bros. movie,” he said. “It’s one of my favorite movies, and that line comes at the very end of the movie, when a police officer comes, and the Maltese falcon is sitting there and the police officer asks Humphrey Bogart, ‘What is that?’ And he says, ‘It’s the stuff that dreams are made of.’
odcinek (serialu), część (np. trylogii)
installment
In the first installment, Zaslav gave a tour of his home office, which consisted of a small desk outfitted with an iMac and a conference phone. The week-four video featured a coffee table covered in classic board games and a copy of Taschen’s “SUMO-size” illustrated history of the Rolling Stones (Zaslav’s favorite band).
sygnał ostrzegawczy (że się czegoś nie popiera i będzie temu przeciwdziałać)
a shot across the bows
We Christian innocents, she wrote, have been duped into our present godless condition by the unholy triumvirate of communism, psychoanalysis and relativity. These three symbolized by Marx, Freud and Einstein, are the result of the messianic impulse of the religiously frustrated Jewish ego. It didn’t take long for the Jews to react to this shot across their bow.
on the back of
w następstwie czegoś
The president, who for years won elections on the back of ushering in greater prosperity for millions, continues to trumpet the country’s impressive headline growth figures.
być na coś przygotowanym
to be primed for something
At first, Zaslav rattled off a few brief and unsurprising remarks about how the media industry was primed for further consolidation. Then he uttered the four words that gave CNBC its headline: “We’re not done yet.”
zerwać z nałogiem; zerwać z nawykiem
to kick a habit
Can India kick its coal habit?
soirée [swarei]
wieczór towarzyski, przyjęcie wieczorowe
Zaslav’s guy-next-door persona belies a social life that mere mortals can only dream of, exemplified by the star-studded Labor Day soirées that he and Pam had hosted until 2018.
to drop
opublikować (najczęściej w internecie)
That moment finally came this week when the now-public company dropped an SEC filing stating it was heading into the adjusted black — provided you indulge it in its favoured form of accounting: the Silicon Valley-revered “adjusted Ebitda”.
to supersede
zastępować (ideę, produkt, metodę), wypierać (kogoś, coś)
Still, Florida’s a different vibe. Anyone can see that. New England, coached by the stone-faced legend Bill Belichick, prided itself on its hive mind, in which the institution always superseded the individual. No one embodied this discipline more than Brady, who loyally stayed on message, seldom offering any comment that could become a locker-room distraction.
żarliwy
fervent
But Silicon Valley also reflected the values of the man who’d organized the meeting, and Thiel—a gay immigrant technologist with two Stanford degrees, who’d somehow found his way to becoming a fervent Trump supporter— seemed to value the expansion of his own wealth above almost all else.
to pummel
pokonać, dowalić, bić
It’s defiant to the point of being comical. Athletes aren’t supposed to be so good for so long—in any sport, much less a sport in which the opposition is trying to pummel you to the ground.
open-ended
otwarte (pytanie); luźna (uwaga)
On the eve of the COP26 climate summit, that began on Sunday, Biden hinted at unspecified retaliation against Russia and Saudi Arabia if they didn’t increase oil output soon. The open-ended threat did not persuade the Opec+ oil exporter group to adjust its production quotas at a meeting yesterday.
odsuwać na bok
to brush aside
They brush aside concerns that elements of Turkey’s deep state — which includes the intelligence service, police, military and criminal elements, and has links to Erdogan’s ultranationalist coalition partner — could move to prop up an ailing president.
chodzić wokół czegoś na palcach
to tiptoe around something
Perhaps most surprisingly, Brady, who has historically been loath to utter anything political—he used to tiptoe around his old friendship with Donald Trump—showed up with the Bucs at the White House in July and actually dared the third rail of political humor, deadpanning a 2020 election zinger to President Joe Biden.
to throw back
zjeść lub wypić coś szybko
In another, shot in Zaslav’s kitchen, he gave everyone a taste of the comfort food he’d been throwing back: nonpareils, Pop Secret, Utz pretzels, and Reddi-wip. “I may be gaining a little bit of weight,” he said.
