nie szkoda...

English translation: These pants are expendable for dirty work.

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Polish term or phrase:nie szkoda...
English translation:These pants are expendable for dirty work.
Entered by: Frank Szmulowicz, Ph. D.

12:16 Oct 23, 2020
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Polish term or phrase: nie szkoda...
Nie szkoda tych spodni do brudnych prac (nie będzie zal, jak się zniszczą)
Aleksandrapt
Local time: 00:16
These pants are expendable for dirty work.
Explanation:
considered to be not worth keeping or maintaining.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/expendable

Regarded as not worth preserving or saving; able to be sacrificed.
In the internecine rivalries of large corporations, whole departments may become expendable in the execution of one executive's power play.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/expendable

2. Not worth salvaging or reusing: expendable rocket boosters.


3. considered to be not worth keeping or maintaining.
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/expendable
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Frank Szmulowicz, Ph. D.
United States
Local time: 19:16
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Bardzo dziękuję
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Summary of answers provided
3 +1These pants are expendable for dirty work.
Frank Szmulowicz, Ph. D.
2it's not a big loss, not a big deal
geopiet


  

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it's not a big loss, not a big deal


Explanation:
no matter if ...

geopiet
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish
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These pants are expendable for dirty work.


Explanation:
considered to be not worth keeping or maintaining.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/expendable

Regarded as not worth preserving or saving; able to be sacrificed.
In the internecine rivalries of large corporations, whole departments may become expendable in the execution of one executive's power play.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/expendable

2. Not worth salvaging or reusing: expendable rocket boosters.


3. considered to be not worth keeping or maintaining.
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/expendable

Frank Szmulowicz, Ph. D.
United States
Local time: 19:16
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PolishPolish
PRO pts in category: 536
Grading comment
Bardzo dziękuję

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agree  Grzegorz Mysiński
1 hr
  -> Dziękuję Grzegorzu i pozdrawiam.
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