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My Favourite Polish Idioms

My Favourite Polish Idioms

Category: Driving

Dziupla

Meaning:

Lit. “a tree hollow”. This is how people in car-stealing business call a shady workshop in which stolen rides get repainted or even disassembled to leave no trace and then be resold as something completely different.

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Posted on 19 October 20228 September 2022Categories Driving, MetaphorsLeave a comment on Dziupla

Korek

Meaning:

Lit. “a cork”. The primary meaning is – as in English – a piece of bark used to seal the neck of a bottle. The secondary meaning is traffic jam, congestion that forces you to sit in your car or bus swearing instead of moving forward.

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Posted on 29 August 202224 August 2022Categories Driving, MetaphorsLeave a comment on Korek

Ile fabryka dała

Meaning:

Lit. “as much as/all the factory gave”. This expression is used by drivers to describe someone flooring the gas pedal (“wciskać gaz do dechy”) and reaching the top speed.

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Posted on 5 June 202230 May 2022Categories Driving, Everyday lifeLeave a comment on Ile fabryka dała

Zjechać sobie na ręcznym

Meaning:

Lit. “To drive down with handbrake on”. This is one of Polish language’s most colourful metaphors for male masturbation (more to follow on this blog).

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Posted on 30 December 20212 January 2022Categories Driving, Metaphors, SexLeave a comment on Zjechać sobie na ręcznym

Był bity

Meaning:

Lit. “it has been beaten”. This terse statement means that a car in question has been in a serious accident before and is probably worth much less then expected. The sentence is sometimes provided in an ad description by frank Poles selling secondhand cars coming from western Europe.

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Posted on 8 May 20214 July 2021Categories DrivingLeave a comment on Był bity

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