Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation

Success has gone to someone's head, someone believes they are more important than they actually are?

Yes!

to have an oak ear.

In English, we have a "TIN" ear! The Germans have a cute spin on same. They say, roughly, "You have an [absolutely] DEAF ear.." = "ein absolutes Ungehoer.."

Yes.

to puke like a cat.

Drunk as a skunk. - Spity jak bela.

Sorry, no. You don`t need to be drunk as a skunk to puke like a cat!

Ha, ha! Very funny, paw:-) You know that what I meant was separate from the previous post of yours.

hahaha
But one could get such an impression, coz those two are not so far from each other.

Aren't they though?

No, they aren`t the same. One can puke like a cat due to illness, sickness, whatever disorder, being perfectly sober at the time.

In the UK we would say to be as sick as a dog.
An easy one:

Ikarowy lot

Oops! That should have been in English!!

Icarus flight

I was simply listing separately an unrelated Polish idiom.

Hmm, a good riddle. I need to think a while how to render the explanation.

Hmm, sb achieves a success but it is only temporary, coz in the end he/she fails in a tragic way.


You should signal when you do it. :)

to give sb zinc.

Yes!! Congrats!!


To tip somebody off?

Signal??

Yes!


To signal means to indicate, notify, signalise, inform.

black clouds over Zbigniew Ziobro....

Thank you, pawian, I had no idea:-)

Next time I wish to transition to a new thought, I'll send smoke signals!
LOL

hahaha no, a simple word: NEW will be enough.

I'll bear that in mind.

These words mean you will never do it. Whenever I heard them, sb was going not to keep the promise. :):)

Is this to do with recent events within the Justice Ministry?

Yes, of course. But it doesn`t matter, those black clouds could be over anybody.

Maybe.

Upon hearing certain news from another member:
come back onto (one`s) old trash.

Ok. An ominous sign that someone is soon to be in trouble as a result of maybe an adverse situation? Misfortune is just around the corner perhaps.


Revisit old haunts, return to an old home?

Yes and yes.

not to grow up to sb`s heels.

At a guess I would say to not hold a candle to someone, to not be as good as somebody else, lacking their ability?

Yes!

to crow out.

To brag or to gloat about something?

No. To jinx - say a bad prophesy which becomes reality.

To wet the snout. in the sense of muzzle, of course.