thumb|Lech Wałęsa, 1990 Wałęsisms, also known in Poland as , are expressions uttered by or ascribed to Lech Wałęsa, the first President of post-Communist Poland. Before that he was an ordinary electrician, who became the leader of the Solidarity movement, which destroyed the Communist rule in Poland. Many of wałęsisms had become a well-established part of Polish culture.
thumb|Lech Wałęsa, 1990 Wałęsisms, also known in Poland as , are expressions uttered by or ascribed to Lech Wałęsa, the first President of post-Communist Poland. Before that he was an ordinary electrician, who became the leader of the Solidarity movement, which destroyed the Communist rule in Poland. Many of wałęsisms had become a well-established part of Polish culture.
==Notable utterances== "są plusy dodatnie i plusy ujemne" - "There are positive pluses and negative pluses" In fact, he said "Plusy Unii Europejskiej mają plusy i minusy" ("Pluses of the European Union have both pluses and minuses"). "jestem za, a nawet przeciw" - "I am for, and even against" "Nie chcem, ale muszem!" - the humor lies in the ambivalence of the phrase: it can be understood as "I do not simply want to, but I have to!", but also "I don't want to, but I have to!" "Dobrze się stało, że źle się stało" - "It was good that it was bad".
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).