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  What it means

  Literally “one-shot man.” Describes someone who only has one chance, one attempt, or one good idea in them — a one-trick pony, or someone who peaked once and never repeated it.

  Vocabulary

  • jeden — one
  • strzał — shot
  • -owiec — suffix denoting a person

  Grammar note

  A compound noun: 'jeden' + 'strzał' + '-owiec'. The '-owiec' suffix is productive in Polish for forming agent nouns.

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