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  What it means

  Literally “to split a hair into four.” Means to nitpick, to over-analyse trivial details, or to make unnecessarily fine distinctions. The Polish equivalent of “splitting hairs.”

  Vocabulary

  • dzielić — to divide, to split (imperfective)
  • włos — hair (single strand)
  • czworo — four (collective numeral)

  Grammar note

  'Na czworo' uses the accusative after 'na' with a collective numeral, meaning 'into four parts'.

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