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  What it means

  Literally “like a fly in tar.” Describes someone stuck, unable to move or make progress — bogged down completely. “Stuck like a fly in amber.”

  Vocabulary

  • mucha — fly
  • smoła — tar, pitch

  Grammar note

  'W smole' uses the locative of 'smoła' after 'w' (in).

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