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  What it means

  “A piece of bread won’t fall from the sky — you have to earn it through work.” The extended form of the proverb makes the moral explicit: hard work is the only path to sustenance.

  English equivalent

  There's no such thing as a free lunch.

  Vocabulary

  • kawałek — piece, chunk
  • chleb — bread
  • praca — work
  • zarobić — to earn
  • trzeba — one must, it is necessary

  Grammar note

  'Pracą' is the instrumental of 'praca', expressing means: 'by means of work'. 'Na niego' refers back to 'kawałek chleba'.

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