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lick² [lik]

1. prehodni glagol
lizati, polizati, oblizati
figurativno lizati kaj (plamen)
pogovorno pretepsti, tepsti, premagati, obvladati (problem), presegati, prekašati

2. neprehodni glagol
božati, lizati (valovi)
sleng hiteti, drveti

to lick s.o.'s boots (ali shoes) plaziti se pred kom
to lick into shape urediti, spraviti v red, dati čemu pravo obliko
figurativno to lick one's wounds lizati si rane, oddahniti se
figurativno to lick the dust biti poražen, pasti v borbi
sleng that licks creation (ali everything) to presega vse meje
this licks me temu nisem dorastel, tega ne morem razumeti
figurativno to lick one's lips (ali chops) oblizovati se
sleng as hard as he could lick kakor hitro je lahko tekel
to lick up (ali off) polizati

lip¹ [lip] samostalnik
ustna, ustnica
množina usta, šoba
sleng predrznost, nesramnost, jezikanje; rob (jame, rane); kljun (posode)

to bite one's lip gristi si ustnico (v jezi), zadrževati smeh
to carry (ali keep) a stiff upper lip pogumno prenašati udarec usode
to curl one's lip porogljivo se našobiti
sleng to give lip jezikati, predrzno odgovarjati
to hang one's lip pobesiti nos
to hang on s.o.'s lips napeto koga poslušati
to keep a thing within, one's lips obdržati kaj zase
it never passed my lips tega nisem nikoli rekel (povedal)
we heard it from his own lips slišali smo ga to reči
to lick (ali smack) one's lips oblizovati se
sleng none of your lip! ne bodi predrzen!, ne jezikaj!
to part with dry lips ločiti se brez poljuba
there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip do cilja je daleč
the word escaped my lips beseda mi je ušla