Leje jak z cebra!
English Phonemes: “LEH-yeh yahk z TSEH-brah”
Literal Translation: It pours like from bucket.
Elegant Translation: It’s pouring like from a bucket.
English Equivalent: It’s raining cats and dogs.
This is a colloquialism very similar to the English equivalent. You use it the same way. When it’s really raining hard, you can imagine that it’s not far from a waterfall like stream you’d get from pouring water directly out of a bucket.
So the next time you’re hanging out with a Polish-speaking friend or family member, and you get caught in an absolute deluge outside, you can delight them by busting this little number out :-)
Leje = he/she/it pours [verb, 3rd p. s. present tense]
Jak = like, how [depending on context]
Z = from [preposition]
Cebra = bucket, pail [noun, masc. obj. form]
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30 Apr 2021
Episode 163: Honey On Soul!
Miód Na Duszy
English Phonemes: “myood nah DOO-[sz]ih”
Literal Translation: Honey on soul.
Elegant Translation: Honey on the soul.
English Equivalent: Heartwarming.
This is a lovely way of saying something warms your heart. Gives you the warm and fuzzies. Like someone pouring honey onto your soul. Sweet and all-enveloping.
It’s a nice idiom to know! Enjoy!
Miód = honey [noun, masc. s. subj. form]
Na = on/onto [preposition]
Duszy = soul [noun, fem. s. obj. form]
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23 Apr 2021
Episode 162: This Poem!
To fraszka!
English Phonemes: “toh FRA[SZ]-kah”
Literal Translation: This poem.
Elegant Translation: This is a poem.
English Equivalent: It’s a snap.
A “fraszka” is a very specific type of poem. It’s a two-line poem where both lines rhyme and match rhythm almost perfectly. The purpose of it is to convey a witticism or a joke. A lot of people think this is easy, but it takes a real wit to come up with a good one.
Sometimes, you’ll see a longer poem like this, where you have two rhyming lines, then two more, and so on. But that’s more of a proper poem in the fraszka style. Kind of like a haiku is 5 7 5 and if you see a longer poem that harkens back to that shape, that’s fine, but it’s not technically a haiku.
Examples of this kind of poem include:
“Ulepił Pan Bóg figurę z błota,
tak przyszedł na świat pierwszy idota.”
by Lech Niekarz
Which means: “Lord God clumped a figure out of mud, that’s how the first idiot came to the world.”
Or
“Czasem się trafia taka parafia,
gdzie anioł z diabłem to jedna mafia!”
by Jan Bester
Which means: “Sometimes, you chance on a parish where angel and devil are all one mafia.”
Anyway, to say something is “to fraszka” is to say that it’s a snap. Easily done. This idiom can be said about any task that you think is simple. In this idiom, you don’t need a verb because the word “is” is implied.
Enjoy!
To = this, then [depending on context]
Fraszka = specific name for the 2-line rhyming poem [proper noun, fem. s. subj. form]
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