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"Osłabiał jak dudy"

"Weakened like a bagpipe"; Refers to the state of a deflated air reservoir of a bagpipe; NB: ➺ "Powolny jak dudy", and "Upił się jak dudy".

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, II;747).