Yes, communism is important to understand the meaning behind it. The riddle continues: Why this specific word kombinować developed such a meaning? You can arrive at an answer using the English meaning or even its old Latin one but relate it to Polish contexts.
Why this specific word kombinować developed such a meaning?
I really don't know where you're going with this. In the PRL Poles had to figure out solutions to problems or they would have had nothing. A sort of survival mechanism if you like. Although I also think it's a way of life and part of Polish culture. What I've said doesn't really cover why though.
I say no when sb is wrong. However, I immediately offer hints, which eventually contribute to success. Without hints, you wouldn`t be able to guess half of my riddles or more.
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Sorry, no.
had to figure out solutions to problems or they would have had nothing.
Yes, you almost got it but didn`t explain to the end. The problem communism created for people was how to combine two things which seemed completely inconnectible, e.g, go on vacation to the seaside but still stick to the scanty monthly ration of fuel which you were allowed. Combining meant uniting fire and water.
Wow, good idea, Fen, let`s provide the solutions, indeed:
break loose from a Christmas tree means to go bananas.
Another one based on Christmas motif - I mentioned it a few years ago but everybody forgot already: The dick struck the baubles, Christmas (tree) will be not.
I've read this definition and also to be living in cloud cuckoo land/under a rock/on a different planet. That's if I have the correct idiom, Urwać się z choinki?
The full idiom is " Don't count your chickens before they hatch".
Yeah, but lots of people abbreviate it and it's slightly harder to use the abbreviated version, like garnek, czajnik or more recently, głowa, biurko (or głowa, ławka )
You are right, I'm new to this game. So, I only conveyed a general meaning of that expression without paying attention to the structure of the sentence.
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