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  What it means

  “Much water, but few fish.” Plenty of resources or opportunity, yet little result. Said when something that should yield results produces very little.

  English equivalent

  All that glitters is not gold.

  Vocabulary

  • wiele — much, many
  • woda — water
  • ryba — fish
  • mało — few, little

  Grammar note

  'Wody' and 'ryb' are genitive plurals after quantifiers 'wiele' and 'mało'.

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