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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.