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  What it means

  A situation where both parties get what they want — a win-win outcome where no one has to sacrifice anything.

  English equivalent

  Have your cake and eat it too.

  Vocabulary

  • wilk — wolf
  • syty — full, satiated
  • owca — sheep
  • cały — whole, unharmed

  Grammar note

  Nominative predicates: 'wilk syty' (wolf is full), 'owca cała' (sheep is whole). The verb 'jest' is omitted, as is common in proverbs.

  Cultural context

  Draws on the classic predator-prey relationship of wolf and sheep to describe an impossible-seeming but desirable balance.

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