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  What it means

  Literally “to take from the ceiling.” Means to make up numbers, facts, or information out of thin air — to invent something with no basis in reality.

  Vocabulary

  • brać — to take
  • sufit — ceiling

  Grammar note

  'Z sufitu' uses the genitive of 'sufit' after 'z' (from).

  Cultural context

  The equivalent of the English 'pulling numbers out of thin air.' Very common when challenging dubious statistics.

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