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  What it means

  Literally “a village nailed up with boards.” Refers to a tiny, remote place in the middle of nowhere where nothing ever happens. “A backwater town.”

  Vocabulary

  • wieś — village / countryside
  • deska — board / plank

  Grammar note

  Instrumental plural 'deskami'.

  Cultural context

  Suggests a place so abandoned that the windows are boarded up.

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