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  What it means

  Literally “two mushrooms into the borscht.” A humorous expression meaning something is completely out of place, irrelevant, or doesn’t fit the situation at all. Similar to “that’s neither here nor there.”

  Vocabulary

  • grzyby — mushrooms (plural)
  • barszcz — borscht (beetroot soup)

  Grammar note

  'W barszcz' uses the accusative after 'w' indicating direction/insertion.

  Cultural context

  Barszcz is a classic Polish/Eastern European beetroot soup. Mushrooms don't belong in it — hence the absurdity of the image.

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