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  What it means

  Literally “like a watchman on Corpus Christi.” Describes someone who is completely idle, doing absolutely nothing — since on the feast of Corpus Christi even the watchman has nothing to guard.

  Vocabulary

  • stróż — watchman, guard, caretaker
  • Boże Ciało — Corpus Christi (Catholic feast)

  Grammar note

  'W Boże Ciało' uses the accusative — a fixed temporal expression for the feast day.

  Cultural context

  Corpus Christi (Boże Ciało) is a major public holiday in Poland when everything shuts down — even a watchman has nothing to do. A very Polish cultural reference.

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