Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation

How romantic :)
That funny sensation when we are falling in love/are horny :)

to peel someone's carrots

I'd say more it's any kind of nervous feeling - a person might have butterflies in their stomache before giving a public speech...

True but I heard it mostly used in movies so I went to the context I know :) Thank you for clarifying

Have we had niższy niż brzuch węża ?

Are you talking about PiS and other rightwingers who publicly defend the so called "values" but break them in private closets??

Someone or something that is lower than a snake's belly is of a very low moral standing.

everybody grates their own turnip

That's a very diplomatic way of putting it. It's worse than every day low morals.... it needs to be exceptionally evil and/or cruel.

I'm not too sure about this one. Does it mean to do someone else's dirty work? To get someone else to do an unpleasant or dishonest job so they don't have to do it themselves?


Everybody minds their own business? Or everyone does their own thing?

Connected to walking

I'll have to have a think about this. All I can think of now is to take the outer layer off, but that's got nothing to do with walking......

Another hint: two people must be walking so that the idiom appears.


I see. Like some rightist posters here, in the forum, when they talk about blacks or Jews.


Yes!

I just read a title with an idiom: Health Minister smashed the thermometre.

civilized people just don't do it, so don't be surprised if Chemikiem never figures it out

Of course they do, everywhere, by accident, especially in densely populated areas.

Just heard in the old TV series:

You have dropped on me from the sky.

What is bull tax?

IIRC the most recent version was a PiS plan to tax single (esp men?) at higher rates to encourage them to get married and settle down...

Dęptać komuś po piętach?


Someone is a godsend?


Bykowe. Bachelor tax as such.

Yes, yes, yes and yes. All last answers are correct.

sb lacks the fifth stave

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Sounds like the equivalent of someone is a sandwich short of a picnic. Someone has a screw loose in other words.

Krew jest gęstsza niż woda

Perfect translation. :):) Family bonds are by far more important that any other.

BTW,, talking about blood

to spoil sb`s blood

Perfect :)


To really upset someone?

Yes! but most often meant to upset sb continuously, over the long haul. A flea is able to spoil our blood more than a lion. hahahaha

Hmm what else? Blood is boiling - a similar one in English. To have blue blood? Sth freezes blood in your veins? Too easy.

How about: to have sth in blood?

mieć coś we krwi?

Trying to think of an English equivalent..... and failing off the top of my head

To have a predisposition for sth (from ancestry)?

Yes, exactly.

sth goes/runs like blood from the nose.

Something is happening slowly and takes a lot of effort. A difficult and hard situation?

Yes!

sb/sth is of blood and bone.

Current political situation can be commented with this one:

the tail is wagging its dog.

Somebody or something is true and authentic?


Role reversal, to turn something on it's head or upside down. E.g something or someone big is now being controlled by someone or something smaller and formerly of less importance?

A new one:

Dodować paliwa do płomieni/ognia.

To make the situation worse.

To stay with the dog's theme:
Dog's life

Hmm. Not sure if it's the same in Polish, but here it means to live an unhappy and miserable existence.

Spot on :)

I think mine are too easy but here's another one:

Dać komuś zimne ramię.