Chować ambicję do kieszeni
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What it means
Literally “to hide one’s ambition in one’s pocket.” Means to swallow your pride, to suppress your ego — to accept a humiliating situation without protest. The variant “chować dumę do kieszeni” (hide one’s pride in one’s pocket) means the same thing.
Vocabulary
- chować — to hide / to put away
- ambicja — ambition / pride
- duma — pride
- kieszeń — pocket
Grammar note
'Ambicję' is accusative of 'ambicja.' 'Do kieszeni' uses the genitive of 'kieszeń' after 'do.'
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