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  What it means

  Literally “to hide one’s ambition in one’s pocket.” Means to swallow your pride, to suppress your ego — to accept a humiliating situation without protest. The variant “chować dumę do kieszeni” (hide one’s pride in one’s pocket) means the same thing.

  Vocabulary

  • chować — to hide / to put away
  • ambicja — ambition / pride
  • duma — pride
  • kieszeń — pocket

  Grammar note

  'Ambicję' is accusative of 'ambicja.' 'Do kieszeni' uses the genitive of 'kieszeń' after 'do.'

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