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"Charczą mu płuca, kiej miech w starych gajdach"

"His lungs made him wheeze, like the bag of an old bagpipe"; Said of somebody with seriously lung problems; From a manuscript by Adolf Dygacz.


Sources

Kubik, Józef: Przysłowia i wyrażenia przysłowiowe o instrumentach dętych (Proverbs and proverbial expressions about wind instruments). In: Polskie instrumenty ludowe… (1981), p.125 (»Dygacz (Ms.)).