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"Człowiek jak dudy"

"Somebody like a bagpipe"; Refers to a passive man who doesn’t have his own opinion in the valuation of the facts taking place around him.
NB¹: ➺ "Chłop jak dudy", and "Jak dudy ten człowiek"; NB²: ➺ "Chłop jak z bobu gajdy".

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;378).