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iznevériti se to fall away, to prove faithless (ali treacherous ali disloyal ali perfidious) to; to become a turncoat (ali renegade ali deserter ali apostate); politika (stranki) to defect, to change sides; (dani besedi) to fail to keep one's word, to go back on one's word; (zapustiti) to desert, to forsake (someone), (dekletu, fantu) to jilt, to betray; (pustiti na cedilu) to fail, to let down, to leave in the lurch

iznevériti se svojim obveznostim to fail in one's obligations
iznevériti se komu v (njegovi) sili to fail someone in his need
iznevériti se možu to betray one's husband
iznevériti se tovarišem pogovorno to rat on one's mates

apostatize [æpɔ́stətaiz] neprehodni glagol (from)
odpasti (od vere); izneveriti se, postati nezvest

betray [bitréi] prehodni glagol
izdati, izneveriti se; zapeljati

desert¹ [dizə́:t] prehodni glagol & neprehodni glagol (from)
opustiti, opuščati, zapustiti
vojska dezertirati; izneveriti se

fail¹ [feil]

1. neprehodni glagol
manjkati, ne zadostovati; prenehati, pešati, slabeti, slabšati se, ne moči (in)
ponesrečiti se, spodleteti, ne uspeti; pasti pri izpitu

2. prehodni glagol
izneveriti se, razočarati, pustiti na cedilu; pustiti pasti (pri izpitu); ne imeti; doživeti denarni polom

to fail to come ne priti
not to fail to do it gotovo narediti
you cannot fail to find gotovo boste našli
I fail to see ne morem razumeti
to fail in duty zanemarjati svojo dolžnost
to fail in one's word besedo snesti
my heart has failed me nisem imel dovolj poguma
his voice failed glas mu je odpovedal
to fail in business propasti, bankrotirati
the prophesy failed napoved se ni izpolnila

break^*1 [breik]

1. prehodni glagol
lomiti, prelomiti, zlomiti, odlomiti; skrhati; raztrgati, pretrgati, odtrgati; poškodovati, (po)kvariti; odpreti, odpečatiti; prestreči, prekiniti; odvaditi; (pre)kršiti; oslabiti, ublažiti; (iz)uriti (konja v ježi); uničiti; obzirno sporočiti; izčrpati; orati, kopati; (iz službe) odpustiti, degradirati

2. neprehodni glagol
zlomiti, skrhati, razbiti, raztrgati se; razpasti, razpadati; počiti, razpočiti se; poslabšati se (vreme); svitati; ločiti se, spremeniti smer; propasti, zbankrotirati; vlomiti

to break asunder pretrgati, prelomiti
to break an army razpustiti vojsko
to break s.o.'s back zlomiti komu vrat, uničiti ga
pogovorno to break the back of s.th. opraviti najtežji del česa
to break the bank izčrpati banko
to break the blow prestreči udarec
to break the bounds prekoračiti mejo
to break bread jesti
navtika to break bulk začeti raztovarjati
to break a butterfly on the wheel zapravljati svojo moč, uporabiti drastična sredstva
to break cover zapustiti skrivališče, izkobacati se
to break a custom odvaditi se
the day is breaking svita se, dani se
to break a drunkard of drinking odvaditi pijanca piti
to break the engagement razdreti zaroko
to break even pokriti stroške, poravnati se
to break faith prelomiti prisego, izneveriti se
to break a fall zadržati padec
to break one's fast nekaj pojesti
to break the flax treti lan
to break (new) ground ledino orati, začeti nov obrat
to break hold iztrgati se
to break the ice prebiti led
to break lance with začeti s kom pismeno diskusijo
to break the law kršiti zakon
to break loose odtrgati se, zbežati; prekršiti
to break a match razdreti zaroko
to break the neck of s.th. izvržiti najtežji del naloge, končati kaj
to break o.s. of a habit odvaditi se česa
to break the news povedati novico
to break open nasilno odpreti
to break a promise ne izpolniti obljube
to break s.o.'s pride ponižati koga
to break to pieces zdrobiti (se); razpasti
to break small zdrobiti
to break the thread prekiniti, pretrgati
to break water priti na površino
who breaks pays sam pojej, kar si si skuhal
to break wind prdniti
to break short dokončati
break your neck! veliko sreče!

cat¹ [kæt] samostalnik
mačka, maček; bič, korobač
pogovorno prepirljivka; dvojni trinožnik

when the cat's away the mice will play kadar mačke ni doma, miši plešejo
to bell the cat izpostavljati se nevarnosti
ameriško, vojska, sleng cat beer mleko
to wait for the cat to jump, to see how the cat jumps čakati na ugodno priložnost
to fight like Kilkenny cats boriti se na življenje in smrt
before the cat can lick the ear nikoli
when candles are out all the cats are grey ponoči je vsaka krava črna
he lives under the cat's foot žena hlače nosi
to grin like a Cheshire cat režati se, kazati zobe
to lead cat and dog life živeti kot pes in mačka
to let the cat out of the bag izblebetati skrivnost
like a cat on hot bricks kakor na šivankah
a cat has nine lives mačka je trdoživa
enough to make a cat laugh smešen, da bi se se krave smejale
it rains cats and dogs dežuje ko iz škafa
to shoot the cat bljuvati, urha klicati
as sick as a cat hudo bolan; slabe volje
not room to swing a cat premalo prostora
tom-cat maček
to turn a cat in the pan postati izdajalec, po vetru se obračati; izneveriti se
sleng cat's whiskers nekaj imenitnega
sleng not a cat's chance, not a cat in hell's chance prav nič upanja
a cat may look at a king še škofa lahko mačka gleda

coat¹ [kóut] samostalnik
suknja, površnik, plašč, jopič; pokrov; prevleka, obloga, omet, opaž, plast, premaz; koža, dlaka, perje
medicina mrena, opna, kožica

coat of arms grb
to baste s.o.'s coat nabunkati, pretepsti koga
to cut one's coat according to one's cloth ➞ cloth
to dust a coat for s.o. pretepsti koga
it is not the gay coat that makes the gentleman obleka sama še ne naredi človeka
great coat zimski plašč
to wear the King's (ali Queen's) coat služiti vojake
coat of mail železna srajca, oklep
near is my coat but nearer is my skin vsak je sebi najbližji, bog je najprej sebi brado ustvaril
to turn one's coat izneveriti se, postati odpadnik, po vetru se obračati
to take off one's coat pripraviti se na boj
to take off one's coat to (the) work zavihati rokave, lotiti se dela

sell^*2 [sel]

1. prehodni glagol
prodati, prodajati (at po, to s.o. komu)
trgovati s čim; izdati koga (za denar ali za kaj drugega)
sleng speljati koga na led, prevarati, opehariti, ukaniti, prelisičiti, ogoljufati koga
ameriško zvabiti koga k nakupu

sold again! sleng spet prevaran (ogoljufan, opeharjen)!
sold on pogovorno navdušen za
to sell, to be sold na prodaj
to sell by auction prodati na dražbi
to sell at a low price poceni prodati
to sell one's country izdati svojo domovino
to sell dear (one's life) dragó prodati (svoje življenje)
to sell goods retail (wholesale, for cash, on credit) proda(ja)ti blago na drobno (na debelo, za gotovino, na kredit)
to sell the grass figurativno izneveriti se zavezniku ali ideji
to sell s.o. a gold brick figurativno prevarati, ogoljufati, opehariti koga
to sell the public on s.th. ameriško, sleng javnosti nekaj (največkrat nevrednega) hvalisati
to sell short; sleng, to sell down the river izdati in prodati
to be sold sleng, figurativno nasesti, biti opeharjen, prevaran
to sell against a purchaser ameriško prodajati delnice pri manjših kolebanjih tečaja

2. neprehodni glagol
proda(ja)ti se, iti v prodajo

his book is selling like hot cakes (like a wildfire) njegova knjiga gre za med, trgajo se za njegovo knjigo
goods that do not sell blago, ki ne gre v prodajo, nekurantno blago