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  What it means

  Literally “to smell the flowers from the bottom.” This is a humorous, dark euphemism for being dead and buried in a grave. If you are smelling the roots of the flowers planted on top of you, you are clearly no longer among the living.

  Vocabulary

  • wąchać — to smell / sniff
  • kwiatek — little flower
  • spód — bottom / underside

  Grammar note

  The preposition 'od' requires the genitive case, so 'spód' becomes 'spodu'. 'Kwiatki' is the accusative plural.

  Cultural context

  While it deals with death, it isn't necessarily morbid. It's often used in action movies or when joking about one's own mortality.

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