pojechać do Rygi
Meaning: To vomit.
Language: Polish
Literally: to go to Riga
Category: Daily Life
Origin: Origin uncertain; possibly a regional Polish euphemism playing on the sound or cultural association of the city name Riga.
More idioms — Daily Life
- kończ waść, wstydu oszczędź — A plea to someone to stop and spare the speaker further humiliation, even if it means acc…
- krzyżyk na drogę — Good riddance; a dismissive farewell wishing someone away.
- bez owijania w bawełnę — Bluntly and directly, without softening or sugarcoating one's words.
- nie dać żyć — To make someone's life so difficult and burdensome that they cannot function normally.
- zamiatać pod dywan — To conceal or hide a problem rather than address it directly.
- włożyć kij w szprychy — To obstruct or sabotage someone's plans or efforts.
More Polish idioms
- uzbroić się w cierpliwość — To be patient or to gather one's patience.
- światełko w tunelu — A sign of hope or improvement after a long period of hardship or darkness.
- robić dobrą minę do złej gry — To grin and bear it; to pretend a bad situation is acceptable.
- zmieszać z błotem — To harshly criticize or verbally attack someone; to tear them apart.
- rozłożyć ręce — To give up; to throw up one's hands in admission of defeat or inability to act.
- strzyc uszami — To prick up one's ears; to listen intently.
From our tongue twisters
- Ząb, zupa zębowa; dąb, zupa dębowa. — Drills the nasal vowels ą and ę, which only differ from plain a and e by the nasal hum.
- W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie i Szczebrzeszyn z tego słynie. — The opening of a poem by Julian Tuwim, now Poland's most-quoted tongue twister — the cons…
- Stół z powyłamywanymi nogami. — Six words, almost no vowels — a single noun phrase that non-Polish speakers find impossib…