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  What it means

  “When a mouse has eaten its fill of flour, it finds it bitter.” Once you have had too much of something good, you grow tired of it and it loses its appeal. Excess breeds contempt.

  English equivalent

  Too much of a good thing.

  Vocabulary

  • mysz — mouse
  • mąka — flour
  • objeść się — to eat one's fill, to gorge
  • gorzki — bitter
  • widzieć się — to seem, to appear (archaic reflexive)

  Grammar note

  'Obje' is an archaic third-person singular reflexive perfective form of 'objeść się'. 'Się jej gorzka widzi' is an archaic impersonal construction meaning 'it seems bitter to her'.

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