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  What it means

  “There’s no smoke without fire.” Every rumour or suspicion has some basis in reality. If people are talking, something must have happened to start it.

  English equivalent

  There's no smoke without fire.

  Vocabulary

  • dym — smoke
  • ogień — fire

  Grammar note

  'Nie ma' is the negative existential construction using the genitive: 'dymu' (genitive of 'dym') and 'ognia' (genitive of 'ogień').

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