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  What it means

  “Where there are six cooks, there is nothing to eat.” Too many people in charge of the same task leads to chaos and nothing getting done properly.

  English equivalent

  Too many cooks spoil the broth.

  Vocabulary

  • kucharka — cook (female)
  • jeść — to eat

  Grammar note

  'Kucharek' is the genitive plural of 'kucharka'. 'Nie ma co jeść' ; 'there is nothing to eat', a common impersonal construction.

  Cultural context

  One of the most frequently quoted Polish proverbs, directly equivalent to the English 'too many cooks' saying.

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