Lit. “where dogs bark with their asses” which is a very colourful way to describe a deep backcountry, a remote anus mundi whereto civilized folk venture rarely and locals cultivate some strange and even dangerous habits. The expression is quite often used by city dwellers considering themselves forces of enlightenment pointing at country folk. A real marvel of Polish vulgar metaphors.
Lit: “to take off/pull one’s panties through the head”. This describes a state of extreme hornyness in which an individual is ready to engage in sexual activities right away, usually in reaction to seeing a very attractive male or female. It is mainly used aimed at women, but nothing in the expression’s meaning excludes aiming it at men. A subset of its meaning stresses a naivety/goofiness of the target, so it’s very often used describing teenage persons, fans of a popular music band of simply, young girls having a crush on a school football star.
Lit. “the bottom and ten meters of sludge”. If you hear this have no doubt that your interlocutor is of an extremely negative opinion about somebody’s behaviour, a book, a music album or whatever else. Be sure to only use it if you really cannot find any positive aspects of the subjects of your conversation. Any proponents of what you’re criticizing this way will feel provoked to start an argument with you and await some brilliant points to support your judgment.
Pointing at something displeasing as “dno” (the bottom, of a sea, lake or a river) has been used in Polish for several decades while the level of sludge seems to be an addition of the recent twenty years in the era of Internets and everybody voicing their opinions about everything online. Several variants exist.
The literal translation would be “broadness!” or “wideness!” which obviously does not make much sense in English. “Szerokości!” is a contracted form of the traditional wishes directed at somebody leaving to drive a long way: “szerokiej drogi!” which means: “may the road be wide (for you)” and might have something to do with Polish roads being in general of a low quality and dangerous. The shortened version created probably in the early 90s still sounds very slangy and far from official language. It is primarily used among truck drivers, less often by motorcycle and car enthusiasts to stress the emphasize that they are a club of their own.
Lit. “to sculpt in shit”, which is used to describe an extremely tedious and often pointless task, especially if the tediousness and pointlessness result from revising of initial reasonable and consistent requirements for the job. So you use this to express your frustration if your ideas for a website or campaign design had first been approved and then your client or your boss introduce their own “brilliant” ideas that you know will result in a much increased workload for everybody in the project and, in the end, render them unhappy too. The expression describes well implementing countless feedback rounds that make your overall product worse and not better. Sometimes it is used to point at overall bad organisation in a project and resulting requirements changes.
