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  What it means

  As the bread, so the crust; as the mother, so the daughter. A variant of the loaf-and-crust proverb emphasising that children take after their parents.

  English equivalent

  Like mother, like daughter.

  Vocabulary

  • chleb — bread
  • skórka — crust
  • matka — mother
  • córka — daughter

  Grammar note

  Two parallel correlatives. 'Chleb' is masculine, 'matka' is feminine — adjective endings differ.

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