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  What it means

  Literally “dark as snuff in a horn.” Means completely ignorant or uneducated — as dark (in the sense of unenlightened) as the inside of a snuff horn.

  Vocabulary

  • ciemny — dark / ignorant
  • tabaka — snuff (tobacco)
  • róg — horn / corner

  Grammar note

  'Jak tabaka w rogu' — 'w rogu' is locative of 'róg' after 'w.'

  Cultural context

  An old-fashioned expression evoking the era of snuff tobacco. Still used to describe someone hopelessly ignorant.

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