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  What it means

  Literally “to eat a barrel of salt with someone.” Means to know someone very well through long shared experience — you’ve been through everything together.

  Vocabulary

  • zjeść — to eat (perfective)
  • beczka — barrel
  • sól — salt

  Grammar note

  'Z kimś' uses the instrumental (with someone). 'Beczkę soli' — 'beczkę' is accusative, 'soli' is genitive (a barrel of salt).

  Cultural context

  Salt was historically precious in Poland. Eating an entire barrel of salt together implies a lifetime of shared meals and hardship.

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