Polish English Dictionary

język polski - English

kawał in English:

1. chunk


She spends a pretty good chunk of time just sitting there and looking out the window.
a chunk of cheese/meat
They lost quite a huge chunk of their motivation.
He cut out a chunk of meat.
So that's a chunk of what we are looking for.
I break my revision down into small chunks; it helps me remember things.
ice chunks
Huge chunks of masonry littered the street.
Can you chunk the cake?
I have a large chunk of money in the bank to buy a car.
You ate a chunk of my birthday cake
a large chunk of the nation's income
Notice and copy chunks of language
All of the students were looking at a little chunk of metal.

English word "kawał"(chunk) occurs in sets:

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2. joke


It's no joke.
A cracker contains a small toy, a paper hat and a piece of paper with a joke.
In the same way, a Russian might fail to see anything amusing in a joke which would make an Englishman laugh to tears.
You're probably going to think this is a joke, but I was a punk rocker when I was a kid.
The joke about the chicken crossing the road to get to the other side is an example of "anti-humor": meant to be funny because, on the surface, it is not.
What kind of jokes should be forbidden?
Whether we find a joke funny or not largely depends on where we have been brought up.
In fact, there is a joke about passport photos: If you really look like the picture in your passport, you certainly need a vacation!
An Englishman, a Belgian and a Dutchman enter a pub and sit down at the counter. Says the barkeeper, "Wait a minute, is this a joke or what?"
Of course he thought it was a joke and let it slide with a "hm?" but he was seriously annoyed. I mean, just don't say things like that even as a joke!
Christopher Columbus once used the same joke 256 times in one day... thereby causing his entire crew to die of laughter.
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with someone else.
If you repeat a joke two hundred fifty six times, it will set everybody's teeth on edge.

English word "kawał"(joke) occurs in sets:

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3. hoax


Is the Loch Ness monster real or is it just an elaborate hoax?
Let's make hoax on him.
The telephone warning turned out to be a hoax.
Money defraudation is a hoax.
The hoax bomb threat was emailed to all senior school students at Haileybury College
It was right at 20 MHz, so you could pick it up really easily, because they were afraid that people would think it was a hoax, basically.
Arriving at the hospital, I learned the emergency call was a hoax.
To be honest, I thought it might be a hoax. But you’re on! I’ll do it.

English word "kawał"(hoax) occurs in sets:

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