Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2

Maybe this one will take a little longer to get.

What does a shoemaker walks without shoes mean?

I never have time to take care of my own affairs because I deal with other people's affairs all day long. This is the meaning of this saying.

How about like this doll! ?


Are you a lawyer???

Yes, I've also seen this phrase.


Yes, in a manner of speaking. A situation where someone proficient in their work lacks something that they produce themselves.

How about, "Don't fry bacon naked."

This is exactly not true. I refer you to the thread about shoes.

Doll as in woman?

Doll as a woman??? Incredible male chauvinism it is.

No, like a true toy doll. :):):)

Very good (better than expected?)

I didn't invent the term!


A fake person, plastic so to speak?

My Polish grandmother called my aunt something like "poopka" that I thought meant dolly.
Any experts on this ?

Two possibilities.

First, more likely, is that it's borrowed from German, in which 'doll' is 'Puppe' (from Latin pupa, young girl)

It would be Polonized as pupa (or more likely with the diminutive -ka as pupka)

Geerman loanwords are found throughout both standard Polish as well as many regional dialects.

Second, she was calling your aunt 'little butt'.... (pupa is an informal word for 'buttocks').

I remember staying near Place Pigalle in Paris and seeing lots of signs advertising "poupees gonflables". I thought it sounded rather nice until I looked it up in my dictionary.

Okay I did not realize that the German word was probably a loan from French until this moment.... that said, it it was borrowed into Polish (I don't know if it was) it was probably from German....

Yes, I know. But you repeat it! Ha!


Sorry, no. It bears a positive meaning. Very positive.
Hint - it refers mostly to things and conditions, not people.

As in my comment #9

With one riddle pending, let`s look at another one: the rag of time.

I know it but I'll let someone else have a go....

And before I forget, check this one too:

What the cat has wept out.

Co kot napłakał?

If it's that it means very little, next to nothing.

For example: This year in the UK we have had as much of a summer as the cat cried.


Not sure about this one.......

Yes!


Hint - rag means a piece of cloth which is used for cleaning, for example. A lot of rags in my house are old clothes. How do clothes turn into rags?

Does it mean when something's worn out?

Worn out clothes turn into rags. Now think logically - a rag of time is what kind of time???

Szmat czasu, However, I see a problem here. This is not-szmata czasu.

And what does it mean???

A lot of time, more than a lot.

The end of time?

Yes!


Feniks, quality clothes which you and me buy take a long time to turn into rags. Hence the idiom. :):):)
How about : stoke the furnace. ?

Aha. I got it the wrong way round. Well done Alien.


Start a fire in the sense of stirring things up?

Not really. He is Polish and such riddles are a piece of cake for us. :):):)


No, not start. Stoke means adding fuel to the furnace which is already burning.


Yes!!!