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"Sprzedałby cię z dudami"

"He would sell you with the bagpipes" [?]; According to Kubik "this paremia [from Greek παροιμία [proverb]; ws], indicates a man who, due to his own cunning, would allegedly be capable of the deed described in it, realises someone’s unkindness or lack of cunning".


Sources

Kubik, Józef: Przysłowia i wyrażenia przysłowiowe o instrumentach dętych (Proverbs and proverbial expressions about wind instruments). In: Polskie instrumenty ludowe… (1981), p.128 (»Krzyżanowski/Adalberg, III;291).

Słownik warszawski (1), I, p.579 (➺ Duda 6).