Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation

Yes, yes, yes!

Now it is your turn. :)

Unsure about my translation on this one.....

Między diabłem a głebokim niebieskim morzem

must be the same as 'między młotem a kowadłem' (between a rock and a hard place)

Yes, between the devil and the deep blue sea has the same meaning, which is?

But I always used the one that directly matches the Polish saying : between the hammer and the anvil.

Believe it or not I haven't heard this before, although the meaning is quite clear...

You mean you only heard the one with devils??? Strange......

No, I've heard the rock and the hard place one before. A similar way of putting it is the lesser of two evils....

What is a little fern in an idiomatic meaning?

Is this anything to do with the kwiat paproci legend?

Nope. It refers to ian individual who belongs to a certain group of people..... very known and popular group.

Next one: to drive sb away onto the four winds.

I read something along those lines, and if I understood it correctly, it meant that a person is a member of a board/organisation, but has little influence or impact within it. A member in name only perhaps, or have I completely got the wrong end of the stick?


To put an end to someone's activity in a brutal and violent way? To drive someone out in an equally brutal way?

cat in a bag and the bag in the river :P

I checked the meaning in google so that would not count let someone else figure it

Noooooo! Don't even think about it!


I'll give it a while before I put the answer up, but I'm not holding my breath that anyone will bother......

Yes!


Yes!


Without googling - to reveal a secret?

Before I forget:

not to throw words onto the wind

Yes!


Don't make empty promises or use words in vain?

Do you mean Iron??? Yes, I can smell him, too.


Yes!

No! I presume you know the meaning though...

To suspect sth.
What about: to smell the writing with the nose. ?

Yes :)


This sounds like it might be the Polish equivalent? Anticipating suspicious behaviour of others towards someone?

In the meantime....

Smak swojego własnego lekarstwa

Yes, a close equivalent. :)

Medicine: To take sth you dished out to to others.

Saying: doctor, treat yourself!

Yes :)


That sounds like the equivalent of 'Physician, heal thyself'. Put right one's own faults, in preference to pointing out the faults of others.

A new one:

Ciąć musztardę

Yes. of course.

As for that mustard, I never heard it before. Le`ts wait.

to take sb by the tailcoat.

Do it properly!
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mustard after dinner

To be physically aggressive towards someone?


Sort of. It means to come up to expectations, to be good enough or come up to scratch ( yet another idiom! ). More commonly used is that something 'doesn't cut the mustard '.


Too late to be of any use. Mustard is always served with the meat at dinner.

Strzelba!

Gun! Is this actually an idiom?