wyjść jak Zabłocki na mydle

Etymology
lit. '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, so that they would be transported unseen under the cover of water. Upon reaching the port city of, 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.

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Verb

 * 1)  to make a bad deal