In his article the author explains the origin of the regional expression from the Eastern Borderlands ‘jeść aż za uszami trzeszczy’ «to eat greedily; have a big appetite» which has a literary equivalent ‘jeść aż się uszy trzęsą.’ In J. Iwaszkiewicz’s idiolect ‘jeść aż za uszami trzeszczy’ is attributed to the author’s geographical descent and a literary tradition. The expression in question and other examples of J. Iwaszkiewicz’s specifi c vocabulary and fraseology stem from the contact between the Polish, the Ukrainian and the Russian languages.
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