Meaning:
Lit. “my guts are playing march”. A humorous way of reporting extreme hunger and urging your interlocutors to bring the food on the table.
Category: Food
Nie trawić
Meaning:
Lit: “to not (being able to) digest”. This means you cannot understand and dislike (or hate) a phenomenon. Usually aimed at a specific individual or group human behaviour.
Być zamulony
Meaning:
Lit. “to be silted (up)”. The primary meaning refers to rivers or ponds but the secondary, metaphorical meaning referring to people, is what I am concerned with here. It conveys the temporary state of thinking and acting slowly, being unmotivated, lazy.
Cebula deals
Meaning:
Lit. “Onion deals“, the latter word being loaned from English while the former is the vegetable that built Egyptian pyramids, one very rich in vitamin C and also popular in Central European cuisines. At the same time for most Poles it’s a symbol of being uncool, ultra-frugal, envious, a miser.
Pół godzinki dla słoninki
Meaning
Lit. “half an hour for the fatback”. Sounds much more gracefully in Polish as it rhymes. It’s a playful term for an after-lunch nap improving your digestion.