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  What it means

  “Bread has horns, poverty has legs.” Earning bread is hard (it fights back), and poverty moves fast — it can catch up with you quickly. A warning about the difficulty of life and the speed of destitution.

  Vocabulary

  • chleb — bread
  • rogi — horns
  • nędza — poverty, misery
  • nogi — legs

  Grammar note

  A parallel structure: 'X ma Y, Z ma W'. Both 'rogi' and 'nogi' are accusative plurals.

  Cultural context

  The rhyme (rogi/nogi) makes this easy to remember — a hallmark of Polish folk proverbs.

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