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

I get the feeling that I'm going in a different direction. I really don't know what you mean.

I was just reading this but I doubt it's relevant to what you are thinking.

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No, don`t give up so easily! When in the Polish forum, do as a Pole/Poless does!

You are already so close.

Let`s recapitulate: Red as communist and count as a nobility title. What is such a person characterised by? Recall what the typical characteristics of counts are and contrast it to red ones!

Red count is still pending while another one looms on the horizon:

Onto the other leg/stem. Also known as for the other foot.

I can't get this unless you're trying to say a red count is somehow traitorous.


Na drugą nogę?

Possible but not necessarily included in the meaning. A red count was a nobility member who cherished democratic socialist ideas, especially when he owned property which brought profit, e.g, a giant farm or factory etc. He treated people working there in a decent way, offering them a lot of benefits, trying to improve the living and working conditions etc. Contrary to non red counts who exploited their workers and ignored their misery.


Yes. And when is it used???

A new one:
dad and mum!

Sorry, I was thinking in English instead of in Polish for a second at least.

It is actually: dad with mum!
Staff members, I allow you to merge these two posts.
Thank you in advance. hahahaha

Ok, I can see it now but sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees.........


Probably at parties etc. Onto the next drink.....

Yes, I wonder if it is caused by cultural disparities between our two nations. Do you know of any red counts in British history???


Yes! Encouragement to have another drink..... :):):)

I think it's more that you know the answers and I don't ;)


Not offhand but I'll have a think about it.

How about reversing the roles???

For some time I have dreamt of having a chance to solve intelligent riddles by other posters about their country, language, culture, cuisine etc etc.....
Dad with mum is pending..........

I will think about this....


An alcoholic drink made by mixing a spirit with fruit juice?

Yes! But it is a modern application. In the past, it was spirit mixed with water.

A new one:

Half an hour for the bacon.

Wow, amasing riddle.
Is it originally a Polish idiom in English translation or an English one in English translation???

Pół godzinki dla słoninki.

My wife likes this saying even though she's quite thin. :)

Amasing! I have never heard it. But słoninka isn`t bacon. :):):)

PS. Kania, you forgot to explain what it means. That`s what Feniks expected us to do. `

When you eat a meal and you lie down to rest, that's your pół godzinki dla słoninki, so that the fat has a chance to build up. :)

Amasing! I am so old but there are still new things to learn...... :):):)

Call yourself a Pole!!


Perfect explanation!


It makes a change for me to be educating you ;)

Yes, it is so amasing! I have been waiting for it for decades........... :):):)

Yesterday I went to my local dentist. He looked inside and said: Be wise and write poems. What did he mean???

He's expressing helplessness in the face of a problem? Your dentist is at loss to know what to do what to do with your tooth/teeth? Though that seems a little odd...

Yes. Helplessness, despair and doubt. The guy is older than me. He talks like my mother used to. That is why I still use his services though he roughly deals with patients.

In what he says or his treatment of patients?

Both. He is brusque in words and actions. But very effective.

A saying: don`t allow your kasha to be blown into.

And another one from our dear Iron:


You two got matched like in a bushel of poppy seeds.