polish sayings

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Does anyone know the phrase " The cat thought and he died" My Mom used to say it to me when I used to start making an excuse about something...Any answer I gave saying "I thought..." I would get (sounds something like this) "keep mas dies dok !?"

She would say it means' the cat thought and he died' ...The message was delivered, but now since she has passed I'm looking for what it exactly is andits origin if any. Thanks

"kot myślał i zdechł" would be the translation.

Witam wszystkich :) Can anyone translate this for me ------> " In an ideal world, plugs would all be the same" ( plugs as in electirical plugs...cause you know how they're different in Europe) lol don't ask..it's random i know, but i need it :)

Dzęki za pomoc!

w idealnym swiecie, wszystkie wtyczki bylyby takie same.

"prawda jest jak pupa, każdy ma swoją "

= the truth is lika a buttie everyone has he's/her's own.

my dad used to say this to me when I was a baby while he was "walking" his fingers up and down my back. His grandmother used to do it to him when he was a baby. I don't know how to spell it only say it so please forgive me...
Le Je BuBu
can anyone please tell me how to spell this correctly and what it means???
I would greatly appreciate it

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Hello,

today a polish friend of me told me that in polish there is a saying which goes like: 'i have a romance for you' . He made me believe that when you say this to someone it only means that you want to ask a favour (not specificly in romantic terms). Does anybody know more about this saying? And if it's is true that this saying exists, how do you say it in polish?

I hope that somebody knows more about this.
Thank you!!

true

In Polish this will be:

mam do ciebie (maly) romansik or
mam do ciebie romans

(and variations of the above)

not even close to what comes to my mind but the "walking fingers" tell me it is "idzie rak nieborak, jak ugryzie bedzie znak". It means roughly "the crab is walking, when it bites there will be a mark (booboo)"

baba z wozu, koniom lżej - easier for the horses when the woman is off the wagon. Meaning: All the better when an unhelpful person gets out of the way

Kto się wróblem urodził, kanarkiem nie umrze.
Who was born as a sparrow, won't die as a canary

Maybe- idzie bobo? or lezie bobo?
Here comes the boogyman

bobo? Bobo is more like baby.

Yes it is but you also say Bo cie bobo weżmie( boogyman will take you) or straszy bobo
Very old people use to use this word for ghost and judging from the word lezie it is a bit archaic.

I'm not very old but not exactly young anymore. Still, I never heard that one.
Is that a particular region of Poland where you may hear that?

'Curiosity killed the cat.' might be a better way of translating this one.
Or would it? A cat being too curious might lead to its untimely spending of all 9 lives,
but just thinking?

I'd better start giving cats riddles to solve. (Or will this only work in Poland?)

edit: No cats have been harmed.

Southeastern

I have just looked it up

BOBO to po polsku straszydlo, potwor.

przynajmniej w krakowskim, straszono dzieci, "przyjdzie bobo i Cie zje."

psycha siada ne ma mnie

I was wondering if someone can translate this quote for me into Polish....

"When words fail... Music Speaks..."

I'd really appreciate it. Polish Pride!

Oh and how do you say Polish Pride... is it Polski Duma?

"Gdy słowa zawodzą...Muzyka przemawia..."


Polska Duma

:) These sayings are fantastic lol

There is apparently a Kashubski phrase which translates ruffly as "having a snake in your pocket", which means being tight, cautious with cash.

Well my colleague at school was introducing me to his student earlier this year. And he did so in Polish and English and for some unknown reason this phrase was brought into conversation, which ran somehting like this.

(infront of bemused class spanning various age groups, sexes and limited English)

Teacher: So do you have a snake n your pocket?

Me:..er...what do you mean? er...I don't think this is an appropriate topic....

Teacher (insisting): No DO YOU HAVE A SNAKE IN YOUR POCKET.

Me: er..um...listen in English if you asked someone "do you have a snake in your pocket", it would have homosexual conitations from one man to another and the word "snake" is often the slang for the word penis.

Teacher: ah..oh..I see ..um because here it means being mean,you known ,..um tighfisted...

Me: Shall we move on from this subject...

Teacher: er..yeah good idea.


It was exceptionally hard to keep a straight face and the student must have thought we looked like a comedy duo. Great way to be introduced don't you think.

This one is a keeper for sure.

also South African! My Dad said that to hubby when he asked to marry me! :P

You shine like a pitchfork in manure:

this is real shiny! ;)

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Ok i am curious now (and confused lol) ....

after receiving this one "pa.pa .. buziaki 102" which means for those that didnt know "bye bye 102 kisses"

This is also meant in the sense >> 102 is sto dwa and this rhymes with papa

so me being me would like to know what other sayings in polish are used that are thought of as a funny way to write or say .. :)

here is a link to some more saying though none written like the one i posted in my post above lol

http://www.proz.com/glossary-translations/english-to-polish-translatio ns/152

A noisy cow gives little milk.
Do not push the river, it will flow by itself.
Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears.
The greatest oaks have been little acorns.
The woman cries before the wedding and the man after.
There will be no bread from that flour.
What little Johnny has not learned, big John will not know.
Words must be weighed, not counted.


http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Polish_proverbs


my favorite:
"Nie od razu Kraków zbudowano."

Translation: "Not at once Krakow was built."
Equivalent: Rome wasn't built in a day.

:P :)

Głodnemu chleb na myśli, the hungry have bread on the mind

How would you say "Rest in Peace"

If I remember correctly its "Spoczywaj w pokoju"