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    What it means

    Literally “a head like a shop.” Means someone has a vast amount of knowledge stored in their head — “a head full of knowledge,” “a walking encyclopaedia.”

    Vocabulary

    • łeb — head (colloquial)
    • sklep — shop, store

    Grammar note

    Nominative masculine noun phrase. The shop metaphor implies a head stocked with goods — knowledge, facts, ideas.

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