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  What it means

  “Mice play up when they don’t sense the cat.” People misbehave or take liberties when authority or supervision is absent.

  English equivalent

  When the cat's away, the mice will play.

  Vocabulary

  • mysz — mouse
  • dokazywać — to play up, to act out, to frolic
  • czuć — to sense, to smell, to feel

  Grammar note

  'Dokazują' and 'czują' are third-person plural present tense. 'Kota' is the genitive of 'kot' after negation ('nie czują kota').

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