Polish English Dictionary

szarpać in English:

1. yank

We don't want any yanks in our country!

When I was ready to jump off the plane, I felt a small yank on my shoulder. 'You've forgotten your parachute' my instructor said.

and i was suddenly yanked upward

She yanked open the cupboard door and everything fell out.

My new boss keeps yanking me. I guess I have to find myself a new job.

English word "szarpać"(yank) occurs in sets:

integracja sensoryczna 1
How to get rich
ANGIELSKI Z KSIĄŻEK 5
ang artykuł z gazety 3
Forbes słówka str13,14,17

2. jerk

Lucy jerked awake from a nightmare.

She dumped him because she thought he was a jerk.

The car made a strange noise and then jerked to a halt.

He's such a jerk! He told us we were the worst class he's ever taught.

Ern jerked the steering wheel so hard that a whole farmhouse had to jump aside to avoid the bus.

Tell him I'm not home. I don't wanna talk to that jerk.

What a bunch of incompetent jerks.

... to have someone else jerk the strings that tie...

He's such a shameless jerk.

He's completely convinced of his own greatness but to the people around him he's just a selfish jerk.

Suppose there's some jerk you just can't get on with.

You're a jerk.

Get lost, stupid jerk!

The jerk factory called. They want their product back.

English word "szarpać"(jerk) occurs in sets:

the short happy life of Francis Macomber
Harry Potter part 1.2
KOONZ-HIDEAWAY CHAPTER 1
Słownictwo litera J
ang -> pol 2

3. pluck

expertly plucked eyebrows

it must have taken a lot of pluck to walk along a path marked ‘Danger’

Birds pluck out their feathers. He plucked the letter from my hand. He was plucked from obscurity to star in the film.

Not unless he wanted to pluck up the courage

To pluck a chicken.

Gary has to pluck a whole lot of thorns out of his leg every time he trips over the rosebush.

The last passengers were plucked from the ship just seconds before it sank.

He leaned down and plucked the red rose.

And their response, of course, was no more than we wanted to stop the genocide and put our troops in harm’s way to do that, nor do we now want to get in the way and pluck genocidaires from camps.

She gave a pluck at my elbow.

Or would I were a little burnish'd apple For you to pluck me, gliding by so cold, While sun and shade your robe of lawn will dapple, Your robe of lawn, and your hair's spun gold.