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  What it means

  “Bread cut with someone else’s knife is tasteless.” What is obtained through others’ effort or at others’ expense does not truly satisfy. Earn your own way.

  English equivalent

  Bread earned by one's own labour tastes sweetest.

  Vocabulary

  • chleb — bread
  • cudzy — someone else's, another's
  • nóż — knife
  • krajany — cut, sliced (past passive participle)
  • niesmaczny — tasteless, unpleasant

  Grammar note

  'Cudzym nożem' is the instrumental case — 'with someone else's knife'. 'Krajany' is a past passive participle agreeing with 'chleb'.

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