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  What it means

  “To taste like grain to a dog.” Dogs don’t eat grain — so something that tastes this way is completely unpalatable to the person in question. Used to say someone has no taste for or interest in something.

  English equivalent

  To be like chalk and cheese.

  Vocabulary

  • smakować — to taste, to appeal to
  • pies — dog
  • zboże — grain, cereal crop

  Grammar note

  'Psu' is the dative singular of 'pies'. 'Smakować' takes the dative for the person who tastes/enjoys something.

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