English-Czech translations for look on

• přihlížet
  Mezinárodní společenství nemůže jen bezmocně přihlížet. The international community cannot look on helplessly.
  Pane komisaři, my, EU, si nemůžeme dovolit jen tak stát a přihlížet. Commissioner, we, the EU, cannot afford to just stand and look on.
  Opět se jedná o situaci, kdy naši občané mohou jen přihlížet a nevěřícně kroutit hlavou. Again, we have a situation where our citizens can only look on and shake their heads.

Definition of look on

• To watch; to observe without participating
• To think of something in a particular way
• To approve or to be accepting of something

Examples

• My performance seems somehow always to get worse when there are other people looking on.
• I look on him not as a boss, but as a friend.
• We dont look kindly on people like you.

Related words

• look direction
• side-looking airbone radar
• not to look beyond the tip of one's nose
• have an outlook on
• look down on someone
• look kindly upon someone
• look down on
• look out for Number One
• look out for number one