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  What it means

  Literally “to go with the smoke.” While it can describe a building literally burning to the ground, it is most often used figuratively to describe plans, money, or dreams that have completely vanished or been destroyed without a trace.

  Vocabulary

  • dym — smoke
  • zniszczyć — to destroy

  Grammar note

  'Z dymem' is the preposition 'z' followed by the instrumental case of 'dym'.

  Cultural context

  It carries a sense of total loss—when something goes up in smoke, nothing usable is left behind.

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