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  What it means

  Literally “what does gingerbread have to do with a windmill?” Used when someone says something completely irrelevant — what are you even talking about? What’s the connection?

  Vocabulary

  • piernik — gingerbread
  • wiatrak — windmill
  • mieć — to have

  Grammar note

  'Co' here is an interrogative pronoun (what). 'Do wiatraka' uses the genitive after 'do.' 'Ma' is third-person singular of 'mieć.'

  Cultural context

  The sheer randomness of the image — gingerbread and a windmill — perfectly captures the feeling of a completely irrelevant comparison.

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