The story
The dictionary keeps it neutral: to see a matter through to the end. Polish ears hear the second half, the favour and the quiet word. In the shortage years it was how a household came by a fridge or a telephone line.
załatwić
zah-WAHT-feetch[zaˈwatfit͡ɕ]
Pronunciation: Speaker: Poemat · CC0 · Wikimedia Commonsto get a thing done, usually through somebody who knows somebody
Closest in English: wangle, wangling, finagle. None of them covers it.
How it went in the game
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- Which language is it from?Polish
- Who says it most often?A cousin who knows a man at the town hall
- Where would you hear it?A phone call that finds a doctor's slot
- What does it mean?To get it done by knowing the right people
How it went
Harder than most words so far.
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