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  What it means

  Literally “as boring as tripe with oil.” Used to describe something or someone incredibly dull and uninteresting. “Boring as watching paint dry.”

  Vocabulary

  • flaki — tripe (also a soup)
  • olej — oil

  Grammar note

  A comparative 'jak' construction. 'Z olejem' is the instrumental case.

  Cultural context

  Flaki is a popular soup, but the idea of plain tripe sitting in oil is visually and culinarily unappealing and 'heavy'.

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