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  What it means

  Literally “to scheme like a horse going uphill.” Means to struggle and strain to find a solution, to rack one’s brains — working hard to figure something out against resistance.

  Vocabulary

  • kombinować — to scheme, to figure out, to work something out
  • koń — horse
  • pod górę — uphill

  Grammar note

  'Pod górę' uses the accusative of 'góra' after 'pod' — direction uphill.

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