Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation

You would have to ask Pawian as I was answering his idiom. That appears to be what you are doing now though.

Oh, heavens no, I didn't mean to make you feel so guilty.
I was merely asking if my idiom fell into the same category as yours. ;-)
Here is another idiom for you.
'Let's not blow it out of proportion'.

Your trolling sentence isn't an idiom.


You need to read the thread title. That isn't a Polish idiom.
Are you actually going to contribute to this thread or just carry on trolling?

I have no idea about your idiom Chemikiem.

to hit a bull

To head butt someone?

In English, that's a Liverpool Kiss (or a Glasgow Kiss).

If you say hit a bull in English, that means idiomatically to get a perfect result. From darts, hitting the bull's eye.

You are British right ?
Polish people here in the U.S.A. use it for an idiom all the time.
It wasn't intended to make you feel so guilty.

Trzeźwy jak sędzia - as sober as a judge. It means someone is completely sober, not had anything to drink.


I would agree with that one.

That doesn't sound right.
More to the tune of no non sense and right on the money.
Correct me please.

No. That would be to hit sb from a bull (walnąć kogos z byka)

Maybe there is a better translation but I don't want to make it too easy just yet.

Now something that really could be used here tonight. It's not really in the letter of this thread but definitely in the spirit. As you guys know I'm from Silesia and while I don't know Silesian too well I know few things and here is one

wyciepać na hasiok

I know (or think I know) hasiok. Is it a dustbin? In Poznań they called bins something else, gimela, maybe.

But the idiom doesn't seem clear. Is it about wasting something or losing it?

Does it mean to throw out the garbage/garbage can?


Wrong.
merriam-webster.com/dictionary/%28as%29%20sober%20as%20a%20judge


You'll have no problem giving the idiom in Polish then.

I always heard "Drunk as a judge"....

Sober as a judge, drunk as a lord.

But people play with idioms.

Yes :)

As to the proper idiom different translation is
to shoot a bull

And no, it has nothing to do with scoring ;)

Shooting a bull? Is it about making a mistake or getting something completely wrong?

To screw something up?

Or in a crude English language (Yorkshire dialect, the prestige form of English) equivalent idiom: "to drop a bollock".

Good guys! Strzelić byka- to make a mistake. It is used mostly about orthography mistake

No problem Tiger.

"wysadzić coś z (wszystkich) proporcji"

aby sytuacja wydawała się znacznie gorsza niż jest

I asked for the Polish idiom. All you have done is translate an English sentence.

As an example of what I mean look at Lenka's idiom:


To shoot a bull is the Polish idiom. The English definition is to make a mistake.

Narcissists can't stand to be left out of anything....

To have a secret.

to do something from the as* side

Is this why you butted in here with your diminishing remark? lol


I told you already and even posted a source.


That would make it Polish. yes

Yes :) Something that someone has kept hidden and doesn't want others to know about.


I'm not sure if this is the equivalent of ' to do something a$$ backwards '. To do something totally wrong or in the exact opposite way to how something should normally be done?


Either you are being deliberately obtuse or you can't understand plain English in addition to Polish.
This is the idiom I was looking for:

Robić z igły widły


BTW, it's not an idiom.

What about:

"Don't make a village"?

Yes :)


Good one. I will give others a chance.

Don't make a scene or behave embarrassingly?

Yeah :)

Now very easy one
the bad ballerina is disturbed by the hem of her skirt

I see johhny is intent on causing eternal trouble in this thread. According to the saying: when the cat is away, the mice will frolic. :):):)

During my absence, I used or recalled a lot of idioms which we had never exploited here, but was too busy to put them down.

However, this one will suffice for a while:to pull a wire. hahaha


It means that when sb can`t swim very well, they say the water is too thick.