Meaning:
Lit. “to pay with one’s head”, which is a way to say that a person (usually a manager or a politician) got fired for making a grave mistake.
Category: Politics
Austriackie gadanie
Meaning:
Lit. “Austrian talk”. This expression is used to describe long discussions or speeches without any results, a wasted time. Also, to point that someone’s argument is, at best, questionable or makes no sense whatsoever. The best context to put it to use is politics, which is also where austriackie gadanie comes from.
Szycha
Meaning:
Lit. “a large conifer cone”, which is used to refer to people with high positions in particular organisations like private companies, administration or even churches.
Polactwo
Meaning:
The word is a neologism hence very hard to find a proper translation. It is either a noun or an adjective expressing contempt for at least a part of Polish society or nation or their characteristic traits.
Chuj, dupa i kamieni kupa
Meaning:
Lit. “ass, cock and a pile of rocks”. Which denotes a thing in a state of utter failure and destruction or FUBAR. Poles usually use this to voice disbelief on a specific matter as a business venture, broken marriage or… their own state.
The last example made this somewhat obscure phrase a hit in 2014 when many recordings of private conversations between top-tier politicians representing the then-ruling Platforma Obywatelska party surfaced and led to their collapse in parliamentary elections. In one of these (probably a bit drunken) conversations Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz, then interior minister, used the phrase to declare that one of his own government’s economical programs simply does not exist. See below.
Sometimes gets abbreviated to ChDiKK.