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My Favourite Polish Idioms

My Favourite Polish Idioms

Category: Animals

Chuje muje dzikie węże

Meaning:

This is a strange one, mainly because it contains a completely non-existent word made up just to fit the rhyme. As a consequence, you really must have heard it a couple times in various contexts to understand its meaning and tonality.

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Posted on 14 June 202230 May 2022Categories Animals, Everyday life, SwearingLeave a comment on Chuje muje dzikie węże

Tropić węża

Meaning:

Lit: “to track a snake”. Which means to go in zigzags from left to right, use the whole available road. Obviously, this is a symptom of a severe alcohol overdose and that is the very situation the term has been coined for.

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Posted on 25 April 202210 April 2022Categories Alcohol, AnimalsLeave a comment on Tropić węża

Glonojad

Meaning

Lit: “an algae eater”. This fish is among the most popular home aquarium dwellers, not just in Poland. It is famous for sucking to glass walls with its large mouth (it is a bottom-feeder) which is why it has a second, figurative meaning.

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Posted on 5 April 2022Categories Animals, Body, MetaphorsLeave a comment on Glonojad

Krowa, która dużo ryczy, mało mleka daje

Meaning:

Lit: “cow that moos a lot gives little milk”. Used to describe a person, an enterprise or a company who make a lot of noise, attract interest, but in the end don’t achieve their stated goals and produce little or no real results.

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Posted on 16 March 202213 March 2022Categories Animals, Food, SayingsLeave a comment on Krowa, która dużo ryczy, mało mleka daje

Włożyć kij w mrowisko

Meaning:

Lit. “To put a stick into an anthill”. Which refers to an action or a statement that immediately provokes a heated discussion, critique or even violent retaliation. This might be due to it (the action or statement) being very accurate, brilliant, provoking or radical.

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Posted on 16 January 202211 January 2022Categories Animals, MetaphorsLeave a comment on Włożyć kij w mrowisko

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