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  What it means

  “Saint Dorothy! Save us from the mud.” A humorous folk cry for 6 February, when February thaws turn roads and fields into mud. It invokes the saint to bring drier weather.

  Vocabulary

  • święta — saint (feminine)
  • wyratować — to rescue, to save
  • błoto — mud

  Grammar note

  'Wyratuj' is the imperative of 'wyratować'. 'Z błota' uses the genitive after 'z' (from).

  Cultural context

  February thaws (roztopy) were a notorious problem on unpaved Polish roads. Saint Dorothy (6 February) was humorously blamed or petitioned.

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