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  What it means

  Literally “to have fallen off the Christmas tree.” Means to be naive, a bit dim, or out of touch with reality — as if you just dropped in from nowhere.

  Vocabulary

  • urwać się — to come loose / to fall off
  • choinka — Christmas tree

  Grammar note

  'Z choinki' uses the genitive after 'z' (from/off). The perfective 'urwać się' implies a sudden, completed separation.

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