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"Nie wie, w jakie dudy grać"

"He/She doesn’t know on which bagpipe to play": About a person who doesn’t have an opinion; According to Kubik this negative variant of 2 proverbial phrases, used in speech, indicates "a lack of knowledge of the mechanisms of the effects (or impact) governing a described segment of reality"; NB: ➺ "Wie, w jaką dudę dąć".


Sources

Kubik, Józef: Przysłowia i wyrażenia przysłowiowe o instrumentach dętych (Proverbs and proverbial expressions about wind instruments). In: Polskie instrumenty ludowe… (1981), p.127 (»Krzyżanowski/Adalberg, I;502).

Słownik warszawski (1), I, p.579 (➺ Duda 2).