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  What it means

  “A guest and a fish stink after three days.” Visitors, however welcome at first, become a burden if they stay too long. Hospitality has its limits.

  English equivalent

  Fish and visitors smell after three days.

  Vocabulary

  • gość — guest
  • ryba — fish
  • cuchnąć — to stink, to reek
  • trzeci — third

  Grammar note

  'Na trzeci dzień' uses the accusative of 'dzień' with the preposition 'na' to express a point in time.

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