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Meaning: To nag someone relentlessly.
Language: Polish
Literally: To drill a hole in someone's belly
Category: Body & Senses
Origin: Persistent, boring pestering pictured as drilling straight through a person's stomach until they yield.
More idioms — Body & Senses
- Vetää lonkalta — To improvise; to wing it.
- Mít všech pět pohromadě — To be of sound mind.
- يد واحدة لا تصفق (yad wāḥida lā tuṣaffiqu) — Nothing is achieved without cooperation.
- नाक में दम करना (naak mein dam karna) — To harass or pester relentlessly.
- מצא חן בעיניי (matsa chen be'einai) — It pleased me; I liked it.
- Дати драла (Daty drala) — To run away fast.
More Polish idioms
- Czuć do kogoś miętę — To have a crush on someone.
- Być nie w sosie — To be in a bad mood.
- Robić kogoś w konia — To make a fool of or trick someone.
- Mieć węża w kieszeni — To be very stingy.
- Wyjść jak Zabłocki na mydle — To lose out badly on a deal.
- Gdzie kucharek sześć, tam nie ma co jeść — Too many cooks spoil the broth.
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…