SoundCzech On fools (or blockheads)
Hello and welcome to another edition of SoundCzech, our long-running language series in which you can learn Czech words or sayings through song lyrics. In today’s edition we’ll hear part of a song by the great Czech folksinger Jaromír Nohavica: the word to look out for is also the name of the song, Hlupáci, the plural of hlupák, the Czech equivalent of fool or dummy. If you say somebody is hloupý, you’re basically saying they’re not too bright - the light’s on but nobody’s home.
Rudolf Hrušínský in 'The Buttoners'
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