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"Bieda, jak duda; zacznieć duć, aż ślozy nabiae huć"

Expression in Polish; Literally: "Poverty is like a bagpipe when it begins to blow, you start to cry"; Tyszkiewicz explains it as "Blowing a bagpipe is difficult and, like poverty, it squeezes tears".


Sources

Tyszkiewicz, E.P.: Opisanie powiatu Borysowskiego [Description of Borisov County [Belarus]]. Wilno, 1847, p.430.

Personal communication

Vital' Voranaŭ (Hlybokae [Віталь Воранаў, Глыбокае]), e-mail 17 Sep. 2019

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Archiv.org (Tyskiewicz [Find bieda: ➺ p.430; result 4]).