światełko w tunelu
Meaning: A sign of hope or improvement after a long period of hardship or darkness.
Language: Polish
Literally: small light in a tunnel
Category: Nature
Origin: A visual metaphor depicting the traditional image of a tunnel as darkness and the light at its end as hope and escape.
More idioms — Nature
- zmieszać z błotem — To harshly criticize or verbally attack someone; to tear them apart.
- wąchać kwiatki od spodu — To be dead; to push up daisies.
- через огонь, воду и медные трубы — To endure any hardship or ordeal without hesitation; to go through anything for someone o…
- за тридевять земель — An extremely distant, remote place; somewhere impossibly far away.
- в лес дрова возить — to do something pointless or redundant; to offer something to someone who already has ple…
- Avoir le vent en poupe — To be doing very well; everything is going your way.
More Polish idioms
- krzyżyk na drogę — Good riddance; a dismissive farewell wishing someone away.
- robić dobrą minę do złej gry — To grin and bear it; to pretend a bad situation is acceptable.
- rozłożyć ręce — To give up; to throw up one's hands in admission of defeat or inability to act.
- 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.
- strzyc uszami — To prick up one's ears; to listen intently.
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