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  What it means

  Literally “to hang dogs on someone.” It means to speak very ill of someone, to slander them, or to criticize them severely.

  Vocabulary

  • wieszać — to hang
  • pies — dog

  Grammar note

  Accusative plural 'psy'.

  Cultural context

  A very old idiom dating back to medieval punishments where a dog was sometimes hung alongside a criminal as a sign of infamy.

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