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  What it means

  “Don’t play, fool, what isn’t on the table.” A variant of the same proverb using ‘matół’ (fool, dimwit) instead of ‘bawół’. Don’t boast about or offer things you don’t have.

  English equivalent

  Don't promise what you can't deliver.

  Vocabulary

  • grać — to play, to pretend
  • matół — fool, dimwit
  • stół — table

  Grammar note

  'Matole' is the vocative of 'matół'. 'Czego nie ma na stole' uses the genitive in a negative existential construction.

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