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  What it means

  Literally “thin as a stick.” Describes someone extremely skinny — skin and bones. The variant “chudy jak szczapa” (thin as a wood chip) means the same thing.

  Vocabulary

  • chudy — thin / skinny
  • patyk — stick / twig
  • szczapa — wood chip / splinter

  Grammar note

  'Jak patyk' is a nominative comparison. Both 'patyk' and 'szczapa' are masculine/feminine nouns used in the same construction.

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