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  What it means

  Literally “neither from a pear, nor from a parsley.” Means “out of nowhere” or “without rhyme or reason.” Used when someone says or does something completely unrelated to the current context.

  Vocabulary

  • grucha — pear (colloquial)
  • pietrucha — parsley (colloquial)

  Grammar note

  Uses the genitive case after the preposition 'z'.

  Cultural context

  A nonsensical pairing of a fruit and a vegetable to emphasize the randomness of a situation.

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