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  What it means

  Literally “the egg is smarter than the hen.” Said when a younger or less experienced person tries to lecture or correct someone older and wiser — “don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.”

  Vocabulary

  • jajko — egg
  • mądrzejsze — smarter, wiser (comparative)
  • kura — hen

  Grammar note

  'Od kury' uses the genitive of 'kura' after 'od' in a comparative construction (smarter than the hen).

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