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  What it means

  Literally “to beat with one’s own weapon.” Means to defeat someone using their own arguments, methods, or tactics against them — turning their strengths into weaknesses.

  Vocabulary

  • bić — to beat / to hit
  • własny — own / one's own
  • broń — weapon

  Grammar note

  'Własną bronią' uses the instrumental — the instrument with which the beating is done takes the instrumental case in Polish.

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