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  What it means

  “A bad dancer is bothered even by the hem at her skirt.” Variant using ’tanecznica’ instead of ‘baletnica’. Same meaning: incompetent people blame trivial things.

  English equivalent

  A bad workman blames his tools.

  Vocabulary

  • tanecznica — dancer (female, archaic)
  • przeszkadzać — to bother, to get in the way
  • rąbek — hem, edge
  • spódnica — skirt

  Grammar note

  'Złej tanecznicy' is the dative singular. 'U spódnicy' is genitive after 'u'.

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