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  What it means

  Literally “stupid as a shoe.” A blunt, colloquial way of calling someone very stupid. One of the most common Polish insult similes.

  Vocabulary

  • głupi — stupid, dumb
  • but — shoe

  Grammar note

  'Jak' introduces the comparison. 'But' is nominative in the comparison clause.

  Cultural context

  Shoes are inanimate and mindless — the comparison is deliberately absurd and dismissive.

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