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"Ni siudy, ni tudy, maje miłyje dudy"

Expression in Polish; Literally: "Neither here, nor there, my nice bagpipes"; Tyszkiewicz explains it as "A Duda is very uncomfortable to hold. It is difficult to settle down well with it. Hence they [i.e. people; ws] allude to a bagpipe when comparing a clumsy person".


Sources

Tyszkiewicz, E.P.: Opisanie powiatu Borysowskiego [Description of Borisov County [Belarus]]. Wilno, 1847, p.425.

Personal communication

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

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Archiv.org (Tyskiewicz [Find siudy]).