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  What it means

  After a good meal, even the water in the pond tastes good. When you are satisfied and content, everything around you seems pleasant. Contentment colours your perception of the world.

  English equivalent

  Hunger is the best sauce.

  Vocabulary

  • strawa — food, meal (archaic/poetic)
  • staw — pond
  • dobra — good (feminine form)

  Grammar note

  'Po dobrej strawie' — locative after 'po' indicating time (after). 'Dobra i woda' — 'i' here means 'even', not 'and'.

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