Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation

Ok.
Hint no 1
What is brother notion usually associated with???

Hint no 2 - in Polish, the order of words is different - brother patch.
:):)

The clergy?

Sorry, no. That is too figurative a meaning. I meant the primary notion for brother................. hood

People linked by a common or shared interest? I really don't have much idea. I would associate patch mainly with bikers but it's not going to be that.

Yes!! A soul mate. Someone fitting closely to another like a patch to a piece of clothing. :):):

What does Polish idiomatic pollinate mean??

PS. I won`t torment you with this one - I just checked the online Polish dictionary and there is no such idiom - pollinate or zapylać meant rush, hurry, speed etc when I was a boy a few decades ago. Amasing!


?P?P?P??P{?P? Why bikers?

OK, now I get it.


I'm not sure how.....


They wear embroidered patches on their leather jackets, often it's the name of the club they belong to e.g Hells Angels MC

Really?? Have you ever watched how bees and other bee-like insects pollinate??? Are they quick or slow in the act of pollinating?? And why quick???? :):):)


I see. Amasing!

move quickly, zapierdalać.

Exactly, but a little too late after I revealed the meaning. :):):):
However, you can still reveal your intelligence by answering my question above: Why do bees pollinate quickly??? Of course, I don`t mean vulgar competition for pollen etc. That would be too trivial. Go deeper than that. :):):)

I was thinking of the literal meaning....

But this thread deals with idioms..... ):):):)

Torq mentioned his new fish tank in another thread. What is the Polish swordfish in fish tanks?

This little guy? When I had aquariums as a kid we had some, officially called 'swordtails' we usually just called them swordfish...

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I had some goldfish. They (and the plastic tank they came with) came from saving up coupons on the back of Chivers jelly (like jello-o) packets. I remember feeding them ants' eggs. Then we got a cat and he fished them out of the tank one by one.

Once I tried keeping more than one hermit crab in the same aquarium..... not recommended.....

Haha, like Garfield

Exactly! Amasing fish! I started my first fish tank before I was 10. I didn`t realise then it was such a wonderful depression reducer. :):):)


Or other less famous cats. BTW, talking about water, what is let ducks go???

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my first thought... along the lines of 'let a bumblebee go' was that ducks were very wet f@rts....

but that was easy to look up so I'll let someone else guess....

Puszczanie kaczek? Stone skipping?

Yes, exactly!

Let`s move to dupa thread.

It's been a while since I put forward an idiom.

Don't be afraid of the frog - what does it mean?

The frog is in the water so it won`t butt you - that`s the remaining part of the rhymed idiom. Did you know it? :):):)

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Truthfully, no I didn't .

You're obviously familiar with it though so I guess you know the meaning.

Yes, coz I used to use it a lot in 1980s when it came into being.
But it surprised and worried me that nobody else replied. It is a popular idiom.

Maybe people were busy on other threads at the time I posted it. In general though this thread and the riddle ones aren't that popular. I do find that strange to be honest.

What is meant by 'To not be in the sauce' ?

The thing is I try not to participate in this thread in the guessing part as it's not really fair on people like you.

I get that Lenka but considering that most people on this forum aren't Polish I'm just surprised that there is a general lack of interest.

I think that mostly I'm just up for a challenge!

There are few reasons I would say.
1- not all people have your passion for puzzles
2- not all have sufficient knowledge of Polish and world in general to get the right conclusions
3 - a big group is just trolls having no interest in anything but arguing
4- the forum is slowly dying out

Reasons 3 and 4 are definitely valid :(

"sauce" is a slang name for alcoholic beverages 🍸🍺