mafketis 38 | 10813 25 Jul 2024 #31quality clothes which you and me buy take a long time to turn into rags. Hence the idiom. :):):)I read that actually it's that the original meaning of szmat was a large area:sjp.pwn.pl/poradnia/haslo/Szmata-a-szmat;16810.html
pawian 220 | 24842 25 Jul 2024 #32Yes!!!And with this positive accent I call it a day coz I have run out of riddles. See you!
OP Feniks 1 | 458 25 Jul 2024 #33Stoke means adding fuel to the furnaceThat's what I meant. Hair splitting you are.......
johnny reb 46 | 7426 26 Jul 2024 #34@FeniksThat's what I meant.Then you should have said what you meant.Pawian was simply correcting you.Hair splitting you are.....Kettle / Black
pawian 220 | 24842 26 Jul 2024 #35Hair splitting you are.....Yes, but only into two while the proverb of Polish bees is splitting hair into 4 ! Ha!
pawian 220 | 24842 4 Aug 2024 #36Feniks, you should take care of your thread better than that. You are responsible for it sort of.E.g, what is the special meaning of cupcake???
Miloslaw 20 | 4836 4 Aug 2024 #37My Polish grandmother called my aunt something like "poopka"Little bum.
johnny reb 46 | 7426 5 Aug 2024 #38Thanks Novi as we always thought it meant a fancy little doll of some kind."Dolly"
mafketis 38 | 10813 5 Aug 2024 #39As I wrote in comment #12, it might well be a polonization of the German word Puppe (doll). could also mean 'little butt'... only the person who said it knows what the intention was....
pawian 220 | 24842 10 Aug 2024 #40Novi says things which remind me of sucking sth from a finger. What does it mean?
OP Feniks 1 | 458 10 Aug 2024 #41What does it mean?Pulling something out of thin air?you should take care of your thread better than that.Than what?
pawian 220 | 24842 10 Aug 2024 #42Novi says things which remind me of sucking sth from a finger. What does it mean?out of thin air?Exactly! Like Novi babbling about Ukrainian losses. :):):)Than what?Than visiting it once or twice a week. :(:(:(:(
OP Feniks 1 | 458 10 Aug 2024 #43Than visiting it once or twice a week. :(:(:(:(I have been away and don't like posting on a mobile, it's effort.
pawian 220 | 24842 15 Aug 2024 #45a barrelTo know sb very well and be good friends.Big barrel- what`s the idiom in Polish??
OP Feniks 1 | 458 17 Aug 2024 #46To know sb very well and be good friendsYes. No idea about your barrel idiom though.