Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation

To be out of sorts, down, down in the dumps, not oneself etc.

Yes. Well done maf.

I'm sure this next one will be too easy:

Don't turn my guitar around. What does it mean?

I didn't say it did, you did. I said sauce is slang for alcohol.
Did ya get it that time ?

noun
thick liquid served with food, usually savory dishes, to add moistness and flavor:

informal
(the sauce)
alcoholic drink:
"she's been on the sauce for years"
Similar:
alcohol
liquor
strong drink
spirits
alcoholic drink
intoxicating drink

And? What relevance does that have to the Polish idiom?

Quit playing stupid and accept the fact that I answered your question politely.
I have heard my Polish relatives use that Polish idiom when I was a kid many many times.
You being a Brit most likely never heard of that and that is why you ask in the first place.
So ? now go argue that too, Karen. 👺
Maybe if you started going to church on Sunday mornings you could learn how to resolve some of your anger and hate issues.

But you were wrong!!!!!!

Actually I wasn't but if that is what you want to believe, who am I to pee in your cornflakes.

Yes he was.
That slang expression had NOTHING to do with the idiom.

No he wasn't.
Read what he posted again.


Did ya get it that time because I don't want to have to tell you again.

Questioner: What is three cubed?

Respondent: There are three sides to a triangle!

Questioner: Wrong answer!

Respondent: No! I was right!!!!!

No, he was wrong because you said cubed, a triangle is not cubed. duh !
Come on maffy, you can do better than that.
I have an idea, lets argue all day to see if we can attack, belittle, diminish and shame J.R. somehow.
Are there any other intellectual adults here besides Novi ?

A specific question was asked... about the meaning of the Polish idiom 'nie w sosie' "not in (the) sauce"

You contributed a completely irrelavant point without guessing the meaning of the idiom.

You were wrong.

It means not to worry. Stop sweating so much, sort of.


Today people are lazy. While Feniks is an old style intellectual who loves using her brain all the time. Just like me. Very few people like that are left in the world. :(:(:(:(


Yes, it is very slow when we remember it started about 15 years ago when social media like Facebook emerged. Yet, we are still alive. Ha!!!!

Stop bothering me....

I first read it in the book published in 1976 but whose plot takes place in mid 1960s. An amateur reporter tried to interview a female worker in a weaving plant but she was busy with work and told him to get lost. He called her nasty names in revenge.

That was the time when big beat became popular in Poland, too, and possessing an electric guitar was a dream of many youngsters.

Of course. I'm sure my idioms are very easy for you though.


If your imaginary Polish relatives had used that Polish Idiom then you should know it has nothing to do with alcohol. Keep arguing the toss though, it's good entertainment value!!


Correct again maf :)

That is why I generally prefer to abstain from replying to your idioms. Like Lenka. I always hope a not native Pole or Poless will do. ;):):

maf generally contributes but I always tend to think of him as an honorary Pole as he's been in the country for so long. He probably knows a lot of the idioms too. Most of the males on here seem to be preoccupied with war and gun threads and of course there are only 4 women here.

That`s what I meant - non-native Pole or Poless. Maf is a patriotic Pole born in the US.

I often heard this from a close family member:Are you waiting for the applause??? What does it mean? And who used to say it to me?

Maybe parents? They think you're not doing something fast enough?

I had assumed that it wasn't applause per se but more like clapping your hands to get a servant's attention....

Exactly! My mum used to say it when I was delaying or thinking of sth else instead of getting down to work


Yes, clapping is used in the Polish idiom.


No, I always associated that clapping with sth else. What namely?? Let it be the second part of the riddle.

For those who plough for us! What does it mean?

I have just checked if it exists on the net. No, it doesn`t.
Hint - I read it in books by Marek Hłasko or Bogdan Loebl written in 1960s.

I know. I did a search in Polish ages ago.


Great! I can spend hours guessing which author and which books!

Is the meaning a dedication? As in for those who came before and did the hard work to make things easier?

No, it isn`t a metaphor. It is simply a toast by drinking people used in early communist times. The toast was for peasants who together with workers and working intelligentsia best represented the Polish nation then. :):):)

The toast was ironic mockery, of course - drinkers who uttered it had the peasant class in deep disregard. :):):)

In Polish - za tych co nam orzą!

Not a chance I would have got that. Especially given there's no trace of it on the net. Thanks for the explanation!

za tych co nam orzą is simply a deliberate alteration/corruption/mockery of the toast "za tych co na morzu" (it's obvious by the sound and look of the toast) ("za tych co na morzu roughly means "to those on the sea" or whatever preposition you use in that case in English)

Quite possible.

How about guitar?? Yes, only one word. Or in proper English. two -the guitar!