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[3-2-Learn] - SKIMPFLATION, TO HOLD WITH, HASTE MAKES WASTE

[3-2-Learn] - SKIMPFLATION, TO HOLD WITH, HASTE MAKES WASTE

Newsletter 3-2-Learn |

Lipiec 2023  | www.prolang.pl

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Hello , "Welcome to the Prolang Newsletter! You'll find three all new and useful pieces of vocabulary here. The first is a buzzword, a new, trendy word. The second is a phrasal or a prepositional phrase. The third is a business word or a business idiom."

skimpflation

DEFINITION: a situation in which the price of the product does not increase but the quality decreases

 

TRANSLATION: skimpflacja; sytuacja na rynku, w kt??rej cena produktu nie zwiększa sie, ale jego jako?ć się pogarsza

 

EXAMPLE: Many businesses didn't want to increase their prices but were forced to compromise on quality and hence have been accused of skimpflation.

 

TRANSLATION: Wiele firm nie chcia?o podnosić cen, co zmusi?o ich do zani??enia jako?ci. W konsekwencji zostali oskar??eni o skimpflację.


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TO hold with

DEFINITION: to accept something or agree with something or someone

 

TRANSLATION: zgadzać się z czym? lub kim?, być zwolennikiem kogo? lub czego? 

 

EXAMPLE: I don't hold with his ideas but he's right about one things - we must take action now.

 

TRANSLATION: Nie zgadzam się z jego pomys?ami, ale ma rację w jednej kwestii - musimy dzia?ać teraz.

 


Haste makes waste

DEFINITION: mistakes will be made if we rush doing things

 

TRANSLATION: nie nale??y się speszyć; co nagle, to po diable

 

EXAMPLE: Would it help if I gave you a few days to think about it? Remember, haste makes waste.

 

TRANSLATION: Czy pomog?oby Ci kilka dni na zastanowienie się? Pamiętaj, co nagle, to po diable.

 

REVISION TIME

Do you remember this word from a previous newsletter?

 

 

TO GET UP TO

 

DEFINITION: to do something amusing or inappropriate

 

TRANSLATION:  przeskrobać co?

 

EXAMPLE: I have to visit our Spanish office and chceck what they got up to.

 

TRANSLATION: Muszę odwiedzić nasze hiszpa?skie biuro i sprawdzić co oni tam przeskrobali.


 

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