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  What it means

  Literally “a hole boarded up with planks.” Describes a remote, isolated, and utterly boring place — a backwater, a middle-of-nowhere town with nothing going on.

  Vocabulary

  • dziura — hole, dump (colloquial for a dull place)
  • zabita — boarded up, nailed shut (past passive participle)
  • deski — planks, boards

  Grammar note

  'Zabita deskami' is a past passive participle phrase — 'deskami' is the instrumental plural, indicating the means.

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