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  What it means

  Whoever finds work a burden will cry out later. Those who avoid effort will suffer the consequences.

  English equivalent

  No pain, no gain.

  Vocabulary

  • praca — work, labour
  • kłopot — trouble, burden, bother
  • wołać — to cry out, to shout
  • potem — later, afterwards

  Grammar note

  'Komu praca kłopotem' is a nominal predicate construction (no verb): 'to whom work is a trouble'. 'Będzie wołał' is the future tense of 'wołać'.

  Cultural context

  The exclamation 'oj! oj!' mimics the cry of regret or pain, a vivid folk rhetorical device.

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