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  What it means

  Literally “food and walking around.” A humorous, slightly old-fashioned way to describe someone who does nothing useful — just eats and wanders about. Used to dismiss someone as a freeloader or a do-nothing.

  Vocabulary

  • jadło — food (archaic/folk); also: ate (neut. past)
  • chodło — walking around (folk/humorous neologism)

  Grammar note

  Both words play on neuter past tense forms used as nouns — a folk-humorous construction.

  Cultural context

  A very colloquial, slightly old-fashioned expression with a folk flavour.

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