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![[Screenshot of the Polish entry for "wyjść jak Zabłocki na mydle" on English Wiktionary]
Verb
1. (intransitive, idiomatic) to make a bad deal [with na (+ instrumental) ‘doing something’]
Etymology: Literally, “to end up like Zabłocki did with soap”. Cyprian Zabłocki was a 19th century Polish nobleman who allegedly came up with a scheme to get rich by selling soap abroad. Trying to deceive Prussian customs officers, he chained waterproof crates with the soap to a barge and ordered them thrown into the Vistula River, so that they would be transported unseen under the cover of water. Upon reaching the port city of Gdańsk, the crates were revealed to be faulty, resulting in all of the soap dissolving in water and Zabłocki losing all money he had invested in it.
Compare Belarusian вы́йграць як Забло́цкі на мы́ле (výjhracʹ jak Zablócki na mýlje), зарабі́ць як Забло́цкі на мы́ле (zarabícʹ jak Zablócki na mýlje).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nz2czue65bbyhrygawldvhwr/bafkreiaq6znkzqujg4245c5tpmhtvuwzympouo64oxvesl65mcolcu7w3e)
![Who, Me? was a top secret, sulfurous, non-lethal chemical weapon developed by MIT-graduate Ernest Crocker for the U.S. Office of Strategic Services during World War II.[1][2] Who, Me? smelled strongly of fecal matter, and was issued in pocket atomizers intended to be unobtrusively sprayed on a German officer to humiliate him and, by extension, demoralize the occupying German forces.[3]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreig5a4qwpgntp5yvblqc35c35h7gu3eq25yb4shbv57dbuvnxxfuwq)
![Who, Me? had a high concentration of extremely volatile sulfur compounds that were very difficult to control: more often than not, the person who did the spraying also ended up smelling as bad as the one targeted.[4] After two weeks, it was concluded that Who, Me? was a failure.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreibih3uoda66lpsf4t3oksxyr4e5ppkiu7n6zxp7pzdlfqbp6grehm)
