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"Dopiero w dudki, kiedy czas krótki"

According to Kubik the word "dudki" in this expression "indicates "complaint" or "lament", caused by the expected consequences of not meeting a deadline"; Its literal translation reads "Complain / Lament only when time is short"; NB: ➺ Dudki.

Sources

Kubik, Józef: Przysłowia i wyrażenia przysłowiowe o instrumentach dętych (Proverbs and proverbial expressions about wind instruments). In: Polskie instrumenty ludowe… (1981), p.124 (»Krzyżanowski/Adalberg, I;359).