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My Favourite Polish Idioms

My Favourite Polish Idioms

Category: Food

Dmuchać na zimne

Meaning:

Lit: “to blow on the cold (thing)”. As in blowing on hot soup to make it edible faster. This expression is mostly used if someone wants to take preventive measures, even if the threat has not presented itself yet fully. Being extra cautious.

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Posted on 15 April 202210 April 2022Categories Everyday life, Food, MetaphorsLeave a comment on Dmuchać na zimne

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

Zjeść razem beczkę soli

Meaning:

Lit. “to have eaten a barrel of salt together”. To know someone very well, being very good friends and having experienced ups and downs together over many years. Such a statement vouches for a person in a way that is really hard to argue with.

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Posted on 27 February 202211 March 2022Categories Everyday life, Food, SayingsLeave a comment on Zjeść razem beczkę soli

Płacić jak za zboże

Meaning:

Lit: “to pay like for grain”. Which means something is simply very expensive and you think it should not be. Also, most people use this expression to point that the party selling probably overcharges and therefore earns lots of money while not acting in an ethical way.

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Posted on 12 February 202228 January 2022Categories Business, Everyday life, FoodLeave a comment on Płacić jak za zboże

Suchar

Meaning:

Lit. “a rusk”. The term is used to denote a joke so old that anyone laughing will be automatically considered a living fossil.

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Posted on 5 October 202113 March 2022Categories Everyday life, Food, MetaphorsLeave a comment on Suchar

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