Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation

Do you have any idea of it's meaning Lyzko?

My guess is that honesty is a quality considered of close physical proximity to the human body, at least in English, also in German, albeit from another part of the anatomy. As to the meaning aka origin of the Polish equivalent I have no clue, I'm afraid.

It does have to do with honesty, it means that you can't get away with a lie, the truth will always come out.

So true..... as this forum shows us on almost a daily basis.....

You're not wrong Milo, Kaprys clocked on to it too, in an earlier post.
Couldn't have chosen a better idiom to best represent PF!

Lol!!!!
What I love about languages, and I am no expert, I only speak 3 and a half.....is the different images the words throw up.
Many of them are untranslatable ( is that even a real word?) LOL!!!

I still can't find a good translation for "zawiść". Envy is the dictionary translation, but it seems stronger in Polish somehow :/

(speaking of which: youtube.com/watch?v=MmQqpEy96r4 - I learnt so many strange expressions from Dzień Swira! Well worth a watch if you haven't seen it - it's Polish comedy at its finest IMO)

That reminded me of a few organ idioms in Polish.

E.g,
to lie on sb`s liver

to lie on sb`s heart.

to be the brain of sth

Bonus
sb is a vein.


The PF is a perfect representation of a typical society. We have both extremes: honest guys and liars, decent and immoral, brilliant and morons, etc etc. And most are somewhere in between.

For worries to lie heavily on someone?


Something is very important and is a concern to somebody?


I think this is the equivalent of the English term 'to be the brains behind something' e.g a plan

Somebody is a vein - Someone tightfisted, miserly?

PS, I think your idea of PF being a perfect representation of a typical society is true, but on here it just seems like the crazies stand out more ;)

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. :)

A new one: to stand on one`s ears.

To be deaf to something, as in I'm not listening?

Sorry, no. Completely different from to fall on deaf ears.
Before I forget (I recall hundreds of idioms while coming back home but when I am in, I forget everything):

to fall on 4 paws.

to land on one's feet?

To reach new heights?


Yep, I would go with that too, as in some people always manage to get out of trouble by landing on their feet.

No idea about the could have killed it idiom though.

If you mean to do one`s best and even more, yes.


That is very easy

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Yes, of course. It wasn't meant literally!


Sometimes I miss the obvious ;)

There are plenty of memes with A mógł zabićquote. I can read it a few times a week in humorous comments on political events.

sb turns into a ram.

Someone becomes an ass, idiot, fool?

There is a little connection with those three but the primary meaning is different. Or, let`s say - first goes the primary meaning and then sb may look like a fool.

Is the idiom similar in meaning to 'brać kogoś na barana'? Or zrobić kogoś w konia?

No, I meant zbaranieć. :)

Does it mean that a person behaves in an aggressive, stubborn, angry manner, and therefore makes himself look an idiot by displaying those qualities?

What does it mean if (in a work context) someone is referred to as a 'hare' ?

praca nie zając :P

It has reminded me of a Russian saying in the times of the Soviet Union and PRL: Kuritsa nie ptitsa, Polsza nie zagranica.

this goes back much further back in history (at least to the times of the partitions, but I guess even to the middle of the 18th century)

Sorry, it means to become completely flabbergasted.


Was gumishu`s answer correct? Because you saidsomeone and he suggested something.

I can see we are turning to animals again.

So : sb became black groused.

no... think.... openings....

Hmm sb is like a hare ...... in a work contex. Hmm. I have no idea. The only thing that comes to mind is based on that fable about a hare and tortoise racing. The hare procrastinates until he sees his rival close to the finishing line - he starts running at last but it is too late.