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

Like I told F, that is not an idoms here in America

Learn to read between the lines or stifle yourself so you don't embarrass yourself further.

Make me

No. It's a Polish idiom translated into English. Why is that so hard for you to understand? Can't you read and understand the title of the thread?

You mean:

Because it is not an English idiom.
That is what I was explaining to F before you chimed in trying to confuse the issue with your defense to save her.
She was smart enough to let it go but unfortunately you aren't.
You're Polish aren't you ?

She never said it's an English idiom.She actually clearly stated it's a Polish one.

Disengage.... some people are simply too stupid to understand simple ideas, like 'if you can't contribute to a thread, stay out of it'...

I did it more to put the record straight and not let him gaslight us.

Nobody's bothered with the głowa mała one.

For sure Lenka knows along with a few others. The person I picked it up from is from Podlasie and uses it all te time.

Similar to it doesn't fit (inside)

A little different as I understand it. More about how reasonable or realistic something is.

An expression for a situation that seems to be incomprehensible?


Something can't be believed by someone?

@Feniks
Yes.Something without sense, unreasonable, ill-thought out.

What about pears in the willow.

Pie in the sky basically. Unrealistic promises.

Exactly that

So again....


Wha'ts going on?

I was just about to get to that one! Sadly, I have no idea at all :(

Same.

There's powrót do siebie however that's different.

Isn't there a dojść do siebie too?

you should translate rather than just use the Polish and no, it's neither of these....

So lets set the record straight then, Love.
No, I said it was not an English one and then she said that it was a Polish one so how is that Gaslighting ?
You are very creative in your diminishments Lenka.
I have learned to never under estimate a woman that overestimates herself.

This isn't going to be right but is it anything along the lines of making a good match or a good fit?

No. Remember all sorts of nouns can replace 'a boy' or 'a girl'....

Hint: the part 'there was to Xself' is just two words in Polish, both pretty common.

Byl sobie?

Understandable and common enough however the meaning is tricky to explain.

It's a formula... when you hear those two words, what follows?

It's for starting a story.

Word for word, it's not "once upon a time" ("pewnego razu" exists, perhaps from English) but semantically it sort of is.

Word for word seldom works very well in translation.... semantically it's very much like 'once upon a time'.

It was a dark and stormy night...

Yes, I got that far with był sobie yesterday morning.


So when you said, "what's going on?" did you mean that it's the opening of a fairy tale e,g Był sobie król ?

It's the classic opening of one.

Yes... you hear "Był sobie...." and you're probably about to hear a fairytale of some kind (unless you flee the scene).

The only thing that fits is "dawno, dawno temu...".