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  What it means

  “What’s the use of someone’s greatness, if there’s no wisdom in their head?” A rhetorical put-down of people who are powerful, large, or high-ranking but lack intelligence. Brains matter more than status or size.

  English equivalent

  A great head and little wit.

  Vocabulary

  • wielkość — greatness, size
  • głowa — head
  • mądrość — wisdom
  • jak — if, when (here: since)

  Grammar note

  'Po czyjej wielkości' uses the genitive case after 'po' in this rhetorical construction. 'W głowie' is the locative of 'głowa'.

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