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  What it means

  Literally “black work.” Refers to dirty, hard, unglamorous manual labour — the grunt work nobody wants to do.

  Vocabulary

  • czarna — black (feminine)
  • robota — work, job (colloquial)

  Grammar note

  'Robota' is a colloquial synonym for 'praca'. The phrase is always used in a figurative sense about unpleasant or menial tasks.

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