Exploring Polish Idioms: The Mighty Wolf

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Welcome to Learn Polish Podcast, episode number 478, 478.

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Cześć, Marta. Pestroj.

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So, dzisiaj jest piękny, wielk.

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Today will be wolf we will be talking about wolf in different contexts in Polish

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sayings do you know some sayings in Polish?

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With wolf? like, hungry as a wolf in the home of a wolf Yes, beautiful, beautiful.

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I was at the Toastmasters event.

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And it was from Courage, it was me, my name is Roy Colin. Is it a lion? A lion.

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Yes, I agree. And it is a lion.

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Ojejka. Today we will talk about a lion in different contexts.

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Ready? Ready.

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Okay, let's start. The first, the first one, as you mentioned,

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pierwsze, tak jak wspomniałeś, głodny jak wilk means punished, hungry as a wolf.

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Głodny jak wilk. Głodny jak wilk, czyli jak bardzo, bardzo głodny, prawda?

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Okay. And by this, I like to remind you that when it comes to hunger.

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Also, there's another saying, umierać z głodu, which means, like, I'm starving.

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And if you would like to translate it directly into Polish, into English,

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sorry, it will sound like, I'm dying of hunger.

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Yes? It was popular in English. Bardzo, bardzo. She said, głodno.

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So worth knowing. But both of them. Głodny jak wilk. Jestem głodna jak wilk.

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Umieram z głodu. But this one, for sure, is more common.

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Okay. The next one is like wywoływać wilka z lasu. Wywoływać wilka z lasu.

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Wywoływać. That's a hard one. Yeah. Lots of W's.

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Wywoływać. Tak. Wywoływać. Wywoływać. And in English it's like set a stone rolling.

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Set a stone rolling. It's like don't provoke because then unexpectedly this

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person, this thing can show up, yeah?

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So, nie wywołuj wilka z lasu, tak? Nie prowokuj, don't provoke, yeah?

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Nie wywołuj wilka z lasu. Niech tam sobie siedzi, yes, then?

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Okay. And another one, it's o wilku mowa.

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So, if... The devil. Exactly, in English it's like idiom, which is speak of the devil.

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Like, na przykład, kiedy We are at the pub and we are talking about our friends

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and then our friends are here, yes.

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Here, our wolf. Oh, we are talking about the wolf.

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Oh, we are talking about the wolf. Yes, we are talking about the wolf.

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Exactly, it looks like that.

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In English, it's like your ears were burning.

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I don't know if you said that in Polish. Yes, in Polish we can translate it like that, yeah.

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So, yeah, in Polish it's wolf, in English it's devil.

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Po polsku devil means szatan. I don't know, do you know? No, what is it? Szatan.

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Szatan, okay, like Satan, szatan.

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Lefie w ogóle. Also szatan, diabeł.

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Diabeł, okay, I've heard diabeł. That's kind of like Hispania as well,

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Diablo. It's kind of similar.

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Exactly. Yes, exactly. And,

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One, wilk w owczej skórze, it's like similar English.

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Wolf in sheep's clothing. Yes? Do I do it correctly? Yes, yeah. I'm not sure. Yeah.

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Sheep's clothing. A bit different in translation is that the skóra basically

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means like the skin. Yes.

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So like in sheep's skin. Yeah. If you translate it directly.

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As we know, many idioms we can translate directly. is one of the examples.

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And the last one is.

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So basically it's like win-win situation.

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But if you would like to translate it directly into English.

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The situation, yeah, something I don't know.

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I would never know.

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Yes, basically, if you would like to translate directly into English,

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it will sound like the wolf is full and the ship is intact.

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Yeah? So everybody is happy.

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Wszystko będzie się śliwe. Yeah. Basically also when it comes to this word cały.

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Sometimes in some situation jesteś cały, so are you okay? jesteś cały?

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Yes, so Mam nadzieję, że wrócisz cały. So for example, it's like,

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I hope that you'll come back safe. Yes?

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It's a basically similar context. Have you heard probably in the past?

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Tak? Jesteś cały? Jesteś cała?

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Tak? To najważniejsze. It's the most important.

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Win-win situation. Wilk, sati, owca cała.

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And what? It was the last example when it comes to wilk.

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Obviously in Polish language there is more,

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examples of VILG in the context if you know some of them you can share,

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you can write them down I will answer or confirm do we use it or not,

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