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  What it means

  Literally “to get hit in the pocket.” Means to take a financial hit — to suffer a monetary loss or be made to pay more than expected.

  Vocabulary

  • dostawać — to get / to receive (imperfective)
  • po — in / on (here: indicating where the hit lands)
  • kieszeń — pocket

  Grammar note

  'Po kieszeni' uses the locative of 'kieszeń' after 'po' in this idiomatic sense of being hit somewhere.

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