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  What it means

  Literally “to walk over corpses.” This powerful and dark idiom describes a person who is ruthlessly ambitious. They will do anything to achieve their goals, regardless of the harm or suffering they cause to others along the way.

  Vocabulary

  • trup — corpse / dead body
  • bezwzględny — ruthless

  Grammar note

  'Po trupach' uses the locative plural of 'trup'. The preposition 'po' here indicates the surface over which one is moving.

  Cultural context

  This is frequently used in political or corporate contexts to describe people who betray colleagues to get a promotion.

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