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  What it means

  Literally “to guard one’s own nose.” Means to mind your own business — to stay out of other people’s affairs.

  Vocabulary

  • pilnować — to guard / to watch
  • własny — own
  • nos — nose

  Grammar note

  'Własnego nosa' is genitive — 'pilnować' takes the genitive case for its object in Polish.

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