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  What it means

  Still waters run deep — quiet, unassuming people can be surprisingly forceful or dangerous.

  English equivalent

  Still waters run deep.

  Vocabulary

  • cicha — quiet, still
  • woda — water
  • brzeg — bank, shore, edge
  • rwać — to tear, to erode

  Grammar note

  'Brzegi rwie' — 'brzegi' is the accusative plural of 'brzeg'; 'rwie' is third-person singular present of 'rwać'.

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