Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation

Oops, I missed the 'to' bit.
A person who is compassionate and forgiving has to present a tough exterior in order to avoid being taken advantage of?

Yes, although this being taken advantage of is practiced much later than one showed compassion. So, you are entitled to deal roughly with sb but let him/her off the hook and later they lash back at you with all their might.

blasted like a Messershmitt

Ripped to shreds? Torn to pieces?

This is an expert level - you won't guess it ;)
I know this, because I'm native, although I can't see this saying have much direct connotation...

Oh dear, that sounds ominous..........

So its meaning is obscure?

Yes, let`s help Chemikiem because this slang can be difficult indeed. It is one of hundreds expressions which mean completely drunk. Its obscurity comes from the fact that a German made fighter plane became associated with heavy drinking.

This one is ironic:I can see a forest of arms/hands.

Our idioms, particularly those using phrasal verbs, e.g "get IN", "get OVER", "get BY", with all their seemingly endless figurative nuances, are probably as consternating for native Polish-born English learners such as yourself in much the same way as your verbal aspects like "pisac", "POpisac", "pisYWAC", "ROZpisywac" etc. are for us foreigners!

For sure I wouldn't have got that one......

I can recall hearing "Spity jak bela!" = Drunk as a skunk!

Spity like bela


is 57th expression on the list. :) But I rarely hear it now, young people prefer to use their own inventions.


Yes.


On second thoughts, I think I know. Messershmitt planes used to wreak huge havoc during WW2 and so does a drunk person.

I've never actually encountered it, but assumed it meant 'very drunk'.... assimilation of semantics?

Reminds me a little of the German "Stinkbesoffen wie eine Haubitze" = Drunk as a Howitzer
:-)

Bit of a guess, but I noted the word 'ironic'. Is it concerning something that no-one wants to do/volunteer for, so no-one is going to put up their hands for it?


For you obviously!

Yes, we sometimes say it in class. :):)

Who is a French doggie?

Isn't that someone very precious or prissy, a bit delicate?

Yes - delicate, sensitive, touchy. But mostly fussy about food. :)

Who is a cossack ? Also in phrase: act like a cossack.

Before I forget: to jump (on) sb`s. That Saxon Gen is intentional.

You have to be careful not confuse it with dogging:-)

What is dogging?

As for the last idiom, I should add this explanation: it is always used in this expression: you can jump me/ you can jump on mine.

Mate,you really do not want to know.........

That's not actually a term used by the general English speaking public AFIK, I've never heard it in the US (I don't know about the UK and their degraded dialects...),

Most commonly referred to as 'the possesive (form)' or 'apostrophe s'...

Someone who would do/take up a challenge that others won't? Somebody fearless?


I've never come across it before, so thanks for the explanation.

Jackass.

Quite possible, it is considered high language here and used by posh teachers who are old school gentlemen. You probably don`t deal with them in the USA. :):)


Yes!


Not really, Jackass involves some silliness or even stupidity while cossack is a positive term for sb fearless.

So, there is still this jump me phrase and a new one:

It/sth is a pip/fruit seed..

Not really, depend on the context.

The only time I hear cossack used is in a sarcastic way when making fun of someone.
Ale z ciebie kozak, Wyskoczyc do kobiety

In such situations, I don`t hear cossack but female boxer.

Are you even Polish pawian?

but damski bokser is not a woman who boxes but a man who is physically violent toward women (clear in Polish but ambiguous in English thanks to the lack of endings)

Pawian,
of couese damski bokser would be used. I was more trying to portray the anti-courage sentiment. As there is nothing heroic or curagous about a man starting on a physically weaker opponent