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  What it means

  “A hundred thunderbolts!” A colourful expletive expressing strong frustration or anger — one of the more vivid Polish curses that avoids outright profanity.

  Vocabulary

  • sto — hundred
  • piorun — thunderbolt, lightning

  Grammar note

  'Do stu piorunów' uses the genitive plural of 'piorun' after 'do stu'. A fixed exclamatory phrase.

  Cultural context

  One of several 'do stu...' expletives in Polish. Invoking lightning and thunder gives it a dramatic, old-fashioned flavour.

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