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  What it means

  “A guest and a fish stink on the third day.” A variant of the same proverb: hospitality wears thin quickly, and overstaying one’s welcome is unwelcome.

  English equivalent

  Fish and visitors smell after three days.

  Vocabulary

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

  Grammar note

  'Trzeciego dnia' is the genitive of time ('on the third day'), a common construction for expressing when something happens.

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