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  What it means

  Literally “to give someone something to burn.” Means to give someone hell — to make things very difficult, to put up fierce resistance or cause serious trouble for someone.

  Vocabulary

  • dawać — to give (imperfective)
  • popalić — to burn up / to make it hot (perfective, colloquial)

  Grammar note

  'Dawać' + infinitive is a causative construction — to cause someone to experience something.

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