Poland

Mądry Polak po szkodzie

A Pole is wise only after a dammage

Instead of avoiding trouble, Poles learn from their mistakes, (it’s easy to be wise after the event)

Czech Republic

Czeski film

Czech movie

Something incomprehensible – Whenever one have no idea what the situation is about, is lost – when it makes no sense.

Czeski błąd

a Czech mistake

A typing mistake in which two letters or numbers are reversed eg. “worng” instead of “wrong” or “37” instead of “73”.

German

Niemiecka precyzja

German precision

To be really precise, accurate

Pruski dryl

Prussian drill

Harsh discipline

Sweden

Stół/bufet szwedzki

Swedish table/buffet

Way of dining, where instead of being given the meal, there’s a big table with everything and you take what you want

United Kingdom

Wyjść po angielsku

To leave English style

To leave without saying “Goodbye”.

Angielska flegma

English phlegm

To be very calm in every situation, to keep a cool head

France

Francuski piesek

French dog/puppy

Someone who is very delicate and raised in expensive place, visiting only trendy places, eating just healthy food etc… – someone who is very picky and gets offended easily

Francuski pocałunek

French kiss

French kiss

Franca/francuska choroba

French sickness

Syphilis

Francuski

French

Oral sex

Italy

Strajk włoski

Italian strike

To strike when you do your job, but extremely slow

Spain

Hiszpański temperament

Spanish temperament

To be sexy,energetic, passionate, randy…

Hiszpański

Spanish

Sex with tits

Switzerland

Jak w szwajcarskim zegarku

Like a swiss watch

To be punctual, allways on time.

Hungary

Polak, Węgier- dwa bratanki, i do szabli, i do szklanki

Pole and Hungarian- two nephews, to the battle and to the glass

The Polish and the Hungarians are like brothers

Russia

Musi to na Rusi [a w Polsce jak kto chce]

“You have to” in Russia/Ruthenia [and in Poland as you please]

Don’t tell me “you have to”, it only works in Russia

Ruski miesiąc

Russian month

To wait forever

Ruski rok

Russian year

A very long period of time

Raz na ruski rok

Once in a Russian year

Very rarely

Zaiwanić

To Ivan something out (comes from Ivan = Russian)

To steal something

Złapał Kozak Tatarzyna, a Tatarzyn za łeb trzyma

Cosac caught Tatar, but Tatar is strangling (keeping) him by his head

Two sides are fighting, there’s balance, but none can let go or he will lose

Ukraine

Przecież to nie Ukraina

But it’s not Ukraine here

There’s a law here.

Pan Bóg i z Ukrainy słyszy

God will hear even from Ukraine

God will hear even from a far

Greece

Udawać Greka

To pretend to be a Greek

To pretend not to know. It comes from Socrates who put himself in a position of a person that doesn’t know in his philosophical debates.

Turkey

Goły jak święty turecki

Naked as a Turkish Saint

To be with no money

Siedzieć jak na tureckim kazaniu

To sit as on a Turkish lecture

To listen but not to understand anything (because Poles couldn’t understand Turkish)

Siedzieć po turecku

To sit in Turkish style

To sit cross-legged

Zawojowany Turek

Turk conquest

To never stop conquering, or making conflicts without reason