Welcome to another edition of SoundCzech in which you can learn useful phrases with the help of song lyrics.
Todayâs song is Most Czechs indifferent to Czech EU presidency - poll ...
Half of Czechs expect life to be better in their homeland - poll ...
I donât feel right in my skin ...
Not even this⦠...
Danes suspected of robbery to be taken to homeland from CzechRep ... by the current teenage idol Ewa Farna and is called Z bláta do louže â which coincidentally is the phrase to listen out for.
The phrase âz bláta do loužeâ means going from âthe mud into a puddleâ in other words going from bad to worse and is the Czech equivalent of the English saying âfrom the frying pan into the fireâ. Or else you can say âz deÅ¡tÄ pod okapâ which means going from the rain under the gutter.
Another way of saying that things are going badly is to say âjde to z kopceâ which means âthings are going downhillâ or âjde to do hájeâ which is frequently used in colloquial Czech and means âitâs going to the groveâ or it is headed for a dead-end. When something canât get any worse Czechs say that whatever it is has arrived at the grove âje to v hájiâ or âje to zabitýâ, meaning âit is deadâ.
A rather more polite way of expressing the same sentiment is to use numericals and say âjde to od deseti k pÄtiâ â in other words âthings are going from ten to fiveâ. I hope that you donât get to use the phrase too often and that for you things always go the other way round. Thanks for learning Czech with me and nashledanou.
(radio-Prague)
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