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  What it means

  “To taste like grain to a dog.” A dog does not eat grain, so this means that something does not appeal to a person at all. It can mean they have no taste for it or no interest in it.

  English equivalent

  To be like chalk and cheese.

  Vocabulary

  • smakować — to taste, to appeal to
  • pies — dog
  • zboże — grain, cereal crop

  Grammar note

  'Psu' is the dative singular of 'pies'. 'Smakować' takes the dative for the person who tastes/enjoys something.

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