czuć w kościach

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Etymology[edit]

Literally, to feel in [one's] bones.

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czuć w kościach impf (perfective poczuć w kościach)

  1. (transitive, idiomatic) to feel in one's water (to feel the effects of something in the form of physical ailments)
    czuć w kościach starośćto feel the old age in one's bones
  2. (transitive, idiomatic) to feel in one's water (to feel or know something intuitively and with a sense of certainty)
    Synonyms: czuć pismo nosem, czuć przez skórę, przeczuwać
    Może czuła w kościach zbliżający się wynalazek kinematografu – epokę gwiazd filmowych coraz bardziej gołych?Perhaps she felt in her bones the impending invention of the cinematograph: the era of increasingly naked movie stars?

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