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  What it means

  “On Saint Dominic’s Day, haystacks off the field — quick, quick!” Tied to August 4th (St. Dominic), this proverb urges farmers to hurry and bring in the grain stacks before the weather turns.

  Vocabulary

  • kopy — haystacks, grain stooks (plural of kopa)
  • mig, mig — quick, quick; in a flash

  Grammar note

  'Kopy z pola' uses the genitive 'pola' after 'z' (from the field).

  Cultural context

  St. Dominic's Day (August 4) falls in the heart of the harvest season in Poland.

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