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  What it means

  “Tall as the sky, but stupid as needed.” Said of someone very tall but very dim. Height and intelligence don’t go hand in hand.

  Vocabulary

  • wysoki — tall, high
  • niebo — sky, heaven
  • głupi — stupid, foolish
  • jak trzeba — as needed, properly (here ironically: thoroughly)

  Grammar note

  'Do nieba' uses the genitive after 'do'. 'Jak trzeba' is an idiomatic phrase meaning 'as it should be', used ironically here to mean 'thoroughly/completely'.

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