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  What it means

  If it is warm on Saint Matthias’s Day (February 24), the cold weather will drag on for a long time yet. Unseasonable warmth in February is a bad sign for spring.

  Vocabulary

  • święty Maciej — Saint Matthias (February 24th)
  • ciepło — warmth, warm
  • wlec się — to drag on, to crawl

  Grammar note

  'Się będzie wlekło' is the future reflexive of 'wlec się'. 'Długo' is an adverb of duration.

  Cultural context

  Saint Matthias's Day (February 24) is another key date in the Polish folk weather calendar.

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