Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation

like a sailor? or like a truck driver?

Swear like a trooper is similar in context I think.

In the meantime....

To let someone into raspberries.

To lead somebody up the garden path.

To drive someone into the field.

Exactly, well done.

A new one:

To show where crayfish spend winter.

A new one to try....

Run like a cat with a bladder.

To try to do something (sometimes several things) in a haste and in a nervous manner.

Yes! Usually moving around at the same time as I understand it. The closest we have in English is to run around like a scalded cat. I didn't think anyone was going to answer! Maybe someone can have a go at the previous idiom:

To show where crayfish spend winter.

Or the ever popular "run around like a chicken with its head chopped off"...

Pokazać komuś gdzie raki zimuja -to teach someone a lesson, to take revenge etc.

And what is the eleventh muse?

To dig like a fly in a tick tar :)

Yep!! Mine are too easy for you kaprys....
Can someone explain why the eleventh muse means to dig like a fly in a tick jar? I don't get that at all.


Oops, missed this one. Yes, you got it right :)

A new one:

Run where the pepper grows.

@Chemikiem
I'm quite impressed with your riddles.
And actually Lenka posted a new riddle. So hers and my eleventh muse are two different things :)

I'll let others to try to guess yours :)

Yeah, I eventually worked they must be....


Television!


To move very slowly, like wading through treacle?

@Chemikiem
Good job :)

In other words, the famous FiUT (Film i Uwantualnie Telewizja).

Unfortunately, as with the photo riddles thread, hardly anyone is interested. Last try though::

Run where the pepper grows

Chemikiem- you are too good at this!
And I try to stay away in order not to ruin the fun!
But since you called me to the blackboard:

To run away.

A bit vulgar one:

To sh*t higher than one's as*

Yep. I've seen the English equivalent as to run like hell, run a mile.


Said by someone who is bigheaded and arrogant and thinks they are more important/intelligent than they actually are?

I already said you are too good at this :)

To break one's head

Surely said about such a person..

To think really hard about something, to analyse and look for answers?

Yes, correct.

to be in the tail.

To stand in line?

aaah, only after a while did I understand what you mean. hahaha Sorry, no, if it was about a queue, I would say: little tail.

I'm American I never use the q word naturally... it sounds like a weird affectation....

maybe then be behind (a schedule)?

Hey, it is just like me! I am Pole educated on the British English and the word line sounds too simplistic and what is worse, connotes different things. :)


Yes!

to pull the string over.

obviously not then...:D

I meant British English used in former British colonies. E.g., I spent a lot of time in Bangladesh.

I just read a know saying - sb commented on PiS` rule in Poland: and the last one puts/will put the lights out..

to lie on the planks - what does it mean?