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  What it means

  “Let a lawyer have a head, and a horse have legs.” Everyone should excel at what matters for their role — a lawyer needs brains, a horse needs strong legs. Don’t expect the wrong things from the wrong people.

  English equivalent

  A cobbler should stick to his last.

  Vocabulary

  • adwokat — lawyer
  • niech — let (imperative particle)
  • głowa — head
  • koń — horse
  • nogi — legs (plural)

  Grammar note

  'Niech ma' is the third-person imperative construction in Polish — 'let him/her/it have'. The first clause omits 'ma' (ellipsis): 'niech [ma] głowę'.

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