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odsunout na druhou kolej

English translation: push to the sidelines

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Czech term or phrase:odsunout na druhou kolej
English translation:push to the sidelines
Entered by: Rad Graban (X)

06:45 Oct 13, 2008
Czech to English translations [PRO]
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Czech term or phrase: odsunout na druhou kolej
Tak vznikla ekonomická impéria, v nichž vlastníci byli odsunuti na druhou kolej.
Jedná se o ekonomickou úvahu o oddělení vlatnictví a kontroly.
Jde mi o to, jestli existuje nějaký podobný výraz v angličtině, mě napadá jen to nějakým způsobem opsat - např. "shifted aside as less important"
Kateřina Suchánková
Czech Republic
Local time: 06:40
push to the sidelines
Explanation:
Another option.
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Rad Graban (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:40
Grading comment
Thank you. And thaks also to everybody else!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +2put on the backburner
Scott Evan Andrews
3 +2set st. aside
Markéta Vilhelmová
3 +2push to the sidelines
Rad Graban (X)
4sidetrack st.
Lenka Mandryszová
3 +1bypass, disregard, take no heed of
Jana Zajicova


  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
sidetrack st.


Explanation:
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Lenka Mandryszová
Czech Republic
Native speaker of: Native in CzechCzech
PRO pts in category: 4
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28 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
set st. aside


Explanation:
uvádí můj frazeologický slovník (FIN Publishing) jako dosunout na vedlejší kolej; nebo také "push st. onto the sidelines"

Markéta Vilhelmová
Czech Republic
Local time: 06:40
Native speaker of: Native in CzechCzech

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  petr jaeger: mne jako prvni napadl tento vyraz
1 hr
agree  Pavel Blann: v tomto kontextu asi "push aside"
3 hrs
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
bypass, disregard, take no heed of


Explanation:
Zatím se mi z nabídnutých odpovědí nejvíce líbí set/push aside. Doplňuji další varianty. Možná bych to formulovala takto: the opinions/wishes of owners were disregarded.

Další možnost: fifth wheel - být ignorován, být jen do počtu

Jana Zajicova
Czech Republic
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in CzechCzech

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Charles Stanford: or this
21 hrs
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
push to the sidelines


Explanation:
Another option.

Rad Graban (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:40
Native speaker of: Native in SlovakSlovak
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thank you. And thaks also to everybody else!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Maria Chmelarova
2 hrs
agree  Charles Stanford
21 hrs
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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
put on the backburner


Explanation:
that's our American idiom, perhaps British, but I never know...

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Note added at 1 day4 hrs (2008-10-14 10:56:38 GMT)
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Here I don't think the owners are going to be put on "second tracks"... nor do we want to cook them. This is an idiomatic phrase conveying mostly the same meaning as the idiomatic phrase in source language, I wouldn't go reading too much into it beyond that. They weren't sidetracked or bypassed, they were given by the opinion of some secondary priority, whereas urgency isn't even addressed. Not to be scrapped, but to be taken up later, otherwise the burner would have been shut off. You can even match passive voice phrasing. They were put on the back burner.

Scott Evan Andrews
United States
Local time: 06:40
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Elizabeth Spacilova: back burner as two words
9 mins
agree  Igor Liba: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/put_on_the_back_burner
14 mins
agree  Radovan Pletka
2 hrs
disagree  Jana Zajicova: To me, this idiom means that you assign low priorities to non-urgent projects. Here, however, we are talking about the opinions of owners (e.g. shareholders) being disregarded (by the boards etc.).
3 hrs
neutral  Charles Stanford: Sorry Scott but I think Jana is right here
1 day 1 hr
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