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

What happened that you have become so stiff and serious??? You weren`t such before.... :(:(:(:((:

It is amasing how people can change over time.

Fortunately, apes don`t coz they remain themselves all their lives. That is our superiority over humans. Ha!!!!

Everyone matures at some point... only we stay forever young. 😜

At least when personality is involved. :):):) While others age physically, mentally and also personally when they get embittered and depressed by their life failures. They stop playing games and become clueless zombies in result. I don`t want to end like that.

What do you mean when you comment on sb/sth:linen press???

Nobody guessed my riddles so now let me explain them:


Usually said to your opponent when dealing roughly with them without going into details.


It means a refusal to do what other people want/expect you to. Even when requests are involved. The image assigned to the idiom features a bare ass shown to others while you are in bending position.


In direct translation dawać radę means gives advice but as an idiom - to manage to do sth.


This can wait a little. :):):)

That one's fairly common


And that one's less common but I've heard it from time to time.

The others less so.

Of course, some are common and some less. Balance in nature we always strive at. :):):):):

What do you think about linen press???? which I can read online a few times a year.

Just as I already said.

One riddle pending and here`s another one which I have just heard in a song by Budka Suflera:
ask for embers.

How about Crow`s Serbian saying which is parallel to the Polish colloqial expression?:


Who is a pot?

Aren`t we all sometimes.

Yes, we are but stop digressing coz you should solve the riddle.

Please ask Alien. He is also smart. He have brain for four legs, not for two.

Crow, don`t make me start suspecting that the Serbian saying about the pot is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma for you and you actually have no idea what it means!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Are you Serbian at all??? Or Russian, in fact????????? Or even a Soviet Russian.

Turn your di*k on some woman.

The center for coordination of movement in bipeds is better developed and arose later in evolution than in quadrupeds. So a brain for four legs is no better than a brain for two legs.

I have brain for 4 legs!

PS. Ooops, sorry, I forgot. I have donated my brain to rightists and nationalists in Poland. Thousands have become geniuses and dropped their sick ideologies in result. Ha!!!!


Exactly! That is why I donated it.
Fortunately, Dr F-stein has offered me a new one. Retrieved from King Kong`s cadaver buried on the Cursed Island.

Ah, he is the lovestruck giant. Pawian, I knew you had a big heart, but I didn't know you had a big brain on top of that.

No worries. Soon I am going to share it with people in need to make them geniuses again, like before.

A new riddle - who do you call gingerbread and why???

To throw logs under one`s feet???
I have just found it in an article how Defence Ministry treats retired veterans.

Sounds a bit like the equivalent of the English ' To pull the rug from under someone's feet'.

To suddenly withdraw help and support for someone.

You are close, as usual. ):):

However, pulling a rug suggests a sudden motion as you wrote.
While throwing logs implies a longer process which is quite logical coz you can`t throw all the logs at a time, you need to discard them one after another. :):):)

So???

To persistently put obstacles or stumbling blocks in someone's way?

Exactly!!!!

taking advantage of your precious presence in the forum which has been so rare recently, here`s another one:
Gone with the smoke!
What and why so???

Is this the same as 'Gone up in smoke?'

Which means what exactly?????? You know, some forum readers might not be so fluent in English as us. :):):):)

Depends on context. It can mean that something is destroyed by fire or it could mean that something has ended without being achieved, the end of one's hopes and dreams for example.

Yes, that`s the metaphor.


That`s the literal meaning.

All in all, the case is solved. :):):)

Sorry, I must leave now coz tomorrow morning I am meeting sb in my bedroom. :):):)

To be tight-mouthed about something/somebody?


For that which remains? All that's left?


An old guy? Stary piernik. Men of a certain age with certain characteristics?

Yes, old guy. But why gingerbread and not poppy seed cake???

As for the other two, sorry no.

Hint - linen press is meant not as a machine but as a place where it is exploited. The word is used on situations where verbal communication among people is abundant.

No - it is real embers which a person might offer to another on request. What for? Hint - mostly done in the street.

How about sitting on your phone/computer??