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  What it means

  Literally “there is no rose without thorns.” Means nothing good comes without some difficulty or cost — every silver lining has a cloud.

  Vocabulary

  • róża — rose
  • kolce — thorns (plural)

  Grammar note

  'Róży' is genitive of 'róża' after 'nie ma'. 'Bez kolców' uses the genitive plural of 'kolec' after 'bez' (without).

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