Lit. “a memory job” used to mean a thing you need to learn by heart. Mostly a poem for a Polish lesson or a set of dates for a history lesson. But the term got also introduced into the realm of sex, in which it is used to denote the act of masturbation while recalling an attractive person you’ve recently seen. Or an arousing event.
Lit. “to set one’s ass up” is a way to say that someone is making her/himself vulnerable and give the others a chance to attack, take advantage, inflict damage or losses. By using this, you condemn the person who foolishly lets this happen.
Lit. “a pâté” is a wide Polish culinary term ranging from equivalent of British pies to leberwurst. Food aside, it also has at least two secondary, idiomatic meanings.
Lit. “a little cricket” (the insect) is the title of a children’s magazine published in Warsaw since 1945. However, the word has a second meaning – a general term for any printed pornographic magazine.
Lit. “a (big) baton/truncheon” (augmentative) has multiple secondary meanings in Polish. Therefore, this post will be a little bit longer than my dear readers are used to. There will be a set of examples for each of the meanings.
