Stół z powyłamywanymi nogami.

Meaning: Six words, almost no vowels — a single noun phrase that non-Polish speakers find impossible to pronounce.

Literally: A table with broken-off legs.

Origin: Poland's favourite challenge for foreign visitors; the consonant clusters are vowel-free traps.

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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…

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wąchać kwiatki od spodu To be dead; to push up daisies.
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