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  What it means

  Literally “where two fight, a third benefits.” When two parties are in conflict, a third party standing aside gains the most. Equivalent to “when two dogs fight for a bone, a third runs away with it.”

  Vocabulary

  • bić się — to fight, to hit each other
  • korzystać — to benefit, to profit
  • trzeci — third

  Grammar note

  'Gdzie... tam...' correlative structure. 'Dwóch' is genitive after the reflexive verb 'bić się' used with a numeral.

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