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  What it means

  “A bad ballerina is bothered even by the hem at her skirt.” Variant with ‘u spódnicy’. Same meaning: a poor performer always finds something to blame.

  English equivalent

  A bad workman blames his tools.

  Vocabulary

  • baletnica — ballerina
  • przeszkadzać — to bother, to get in the way
  • rąbek — hem, edge
  • spódnica — skirt

  Grammar note

  'U spódnicy' uses the genitive after the preposition 'u', meaning 'at/of the skirt'.

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