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  What it means

  Literally “a spoonful of tar.” Means a small negative element that spoils something — “a fly in the ointment.”

  Vocabulary

  • łyżka — spoon
  • dziegieć — tar

  Grammar note

  'Dziegciu' is genitive of 'dziegieć'.

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