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Polish · 3 phrases

Hands & Trouble

Three to know: the gest Kozakiewicza, the only rude gesture with an Olympic gold medal and a Cold War legend attached; the neck-flick that means vodka is being proposed; and the fig sign — mocking but childish here, though properly obscene a border or two east. Gestures don't translate; recalibrate at every frontier.

figa z makiem gesture You get nothing / fat chance — the mocking denial gesture. pstryknięcie w szyję gesture Let's drink / he's been drinking — the vodka semaphore. gest Kozakiewicza gesture Up yours — Poland's most famous gesture, with an Olympic gold medal attached.