załatwić
Language: Polish · [zaˈwatfit͡ɕ] · Pronunciation: zah-WAHT-feetch
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Pronunciation: Speaker: Poemat · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Meaning
to get a thing done, usually through somebody who knows somebody
The story
The dictionary keeps it neutral: to see a matter through to the end. Polish ears hear the second half, the favour and the quiet word. In the shortage years it was how a household came by a fridge or a telephone line.
The four rounds
- Which language is it from?
- Polish
- Who says it most often?
- A cousin who knows a man at the town hall
- Where would you hear it?
- A phone call that finds a doctor's slot
- What does it mean?
- To get it done by knowing the right people
How it went
Harder than most words so far.
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- Brückentag blind word
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a long-running issue that gives whoever holds it a headache - hoesik blind word
the team meal and drinks after work, often with the boss paying - enchufe blind word
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doing nothing, deliberately — idling as a pastime - Verschlimmbessern 2026-09-18
to make something worse by trying to improve it — a fix that backfires
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