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  What it means

  Literally “to bite the sand/dust.” Means to bite the dust — to die, to fall in defeat, or to fail completely. Used both literally about death and figuratively about total failure.

  Vocabulary

  • gryźć — to bite (imperfective)
  • piach — sand / dust (colloquial form of 'piasek')

  Grammar note

  'Piach' is the accusative — direct object of 'gryźć'. 'Piach' is a colloquial variant of 'piasek' common in spoken Polish.

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