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  What it means

  Literally “to be salt in the eye.” Means to be a constant irritant or thorn in someone’s side — someone whose very existence annoys another person.

  Vocabulary

  • sól — salt
  • oko — eye

  Grammar note

  'Solą' is instrumental of 'sól' — predicate after 'być' takes instrumental. 'W oku' is locative of 'oko' after 'w.' Used with dative: 'być komuś solą w oku.'

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