Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation

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No, pepper is used as a verb here. :):):)

You know that I know what's going on, but I don't want to spoil the fun.

Get lost or even bugger off!

Sth gets sausaged. Or sb sausages sth. Sausage is a verb.

I wrote elsewhere:
in the next Pres elections Dems will win with flying colours.

in Poland we say: do sth with a finger in the nose:

Can you explain the etymology of this idiom???

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A finger in the nose implies picking it. Picking your nose is associated with idleness - when people have nothing to do, they can while away time by picking their noses. So, doing sth with a finger in the nose means you do it effortlessly.

@pawian
Germans prefere to say:
Das mache ich mit links - I can do it with the left ( hand), and I used to say - on zrobi to z palcem w dupie - with a finger up his ass.

Or even "Das kann ich auch linkshaendig machen" = I'm also a lefty. (Even I'm a lefty).

To get oneself out of a sticky situation?

Almost. It means to recover from a health disorder like an illness but mostly some injuries. Can also be mental injuries. :):)

To be hungry?

To talk about something irrelevant or trivial.


To be prepared to do anything for someone?


To feel valued, priceless?


To have everything one wants, to feel happy and contented?

Mowic to srebro, milczyc to zloto = Silence is golden
For whatever reason, the first part is omitted in English.

That's why I enjoy so much looking at a blank TV for hours...

Rather like pantomime, isn't it?

To pretend not to see something?

To talk about something irrelevant or trivial.
To be prepared to do anything for someone?
To have everything one wants, to feel happy and contented?
To pretend not to see something?

Yes, those guesses are correct.


To be like gold requires a little different approach. It is not that you feel like gold, it is what people think of you. A boy like gold - he will be a perfect husband one day.

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And contract a contact with ghosts which dwell on the other side?? Are you crazy?? Look below what you should stare at! Change your harmful habits now!

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The opposite of what I said then! Thanks for the explanation and the link. Really sad story about the paramedic :(

Of course not. Didn`t you say valued, priceless?? One can feel like that or others might think so about you. The core meaning is the same. :):)


Rather demons, not ghosts. I got blinded by the Poltergeist expression.

to throw sb off the sleigh - usually means to dismiss a person who is a member of our group.
What is the exact origin of this idiom?

PS. I just read an article about PiS flushing their Health minister down the toilet although he begged for mercy..... twice...

Ha,ha, maybe they will regret it when they get sick. Revenge of the minister.

Is the idiom similar in meaning to throwing someone to the wolves? Throwing someone off the sleigh to me means getting rid of the dead wood or a dead weight. Sacrificing someone so that others will be ok? Making someone a scapegoat.

Yes! Throw a person off the sleigh is to sacrifice him/her in order to save the rest of travellers from hungry wolves which are chasing the sleigh. Such attacks used to happen in old Poland. A frequent motif in Polish art:

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To bite one`s tongue means to abstain from saying sth which might offend people .

Is a tank driving here? you ask this question, pulling down the bottom eyelid with your index finger. It means: stop this bs, I don`t believe you.

You can add Russian to the tank, thus making the saying stronger. :):):)

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A saying from a 1970s TV series - it is time to tidy up the papers.
What does it mean?

I just came across an idiomatic title about certain PiS politician who used to be a decent man but went to the dogs:
to swallow frogs

To put one's affairs in order?

Yes, sort of but what for? What is the main objective of this activity???

Paying overdue bills?