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  What it means

  If there is frost on Saint Margaret’s day (13 July), the cart won’t be rolling for a long time yet — meaning summer work will be delayed or conditions will remain poor.

  Vocabulary

  • mróz — frost
  • wóz — cart, wagon
  • jechać — to go, to travel (by vehicle)

  Grammar note

  'Nie pojedzie' is negated perfective future of 'pojechać'. 'Na Małgorzaty' uses the genitive in a saint's-day time expression.

  Cultural context

  Saint Margaret of Antioch is celebrated on 13 July. A frost in mid-July would be extraordinary and devastating for crops, hence the gloomy forecast.

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