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  What it means

  Literally “to bite the sand/dirt.” Means to die — specifically to fall dead, face-first into the ground. Used in colloquial and dramatic speech, and in dark humour.

  Vocabulary

  • gryźć — to bite (imperfective)
  • piach — sand, dirt (colloquial form of 'piasek')

  Grammar note

  'Piach' is the accusative singular — the object of 'gryźć'. 'Piach' is a colloquial/regional variant of 'piasek'.

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