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  What it means

  Fourth pass, cards in the pile — said when the fourth player passes in a card game, ending the round; more broadly, when something is definitively over.

  Vocabulary

  • czwarty — fourth
  • pas — pass (in cards)
  • karty — cards
  • tas — pile, stack (of cards)

  Grammar note

  Elliptical rhyming phrase; 'pas' and 'tas' form the rhyme.

  Cultural context

  Originates from card-playing culture; used colloquially to signal that something is finished.

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