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"Kto ma brzuch zbyt chudy, temu grają dudy"

"The bagpipe plays for him, who has a scraggy belly" [?]; According to Kubik this proverb contains a lexical ambiguity about playing bagpipes, which in this case defines the sounds coming from the digestive tract of a hungry man.


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, I;209).

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