budować chatę pod topór

Literally, “to build a hut under the axe”, as after the wall dried, they cut it vertically with a bent axe to make it even.

• (Greater Poland):
  • (Kuyavia) IPA^(key): [buˈdɔ.vat͡ɕ ˈxa.tɛ pɔt‿ˈtɔ.por]
  • (Central Greater Poland) IPA^(key): [buˈdɔ.vat͡ɕ ˈxa.tɛ pɔt‿ˈtɔ.por]

budować chatę pod topór impf

1. (intransitve, Kuyavia, Central Greater Poland, construction) to build a hut out of clay mixed with straw

• Jan Karłowicz (1907), “topór”, in Jan Łoś, editors, Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volume 5: R S Ś T, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 411