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  What it means

  Literally “to lower a crane (bird’s neck).” Means to crane one’s neck to peek or spy — to snoop or look somewhere you’re not supposed to.

  Vocabulary

  • zapuszczać — to lower, to let down
  • żuraw — crane (bird or machine)

  Grammar note

  Accusative: zapuszczać + accusative (żurawia).

  Cultural context

  The image is of stretching one's neck like a crane to see something.

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