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  What it means

  Literally “when it comes to what comes to what.” Means when it really matters, when push comes to shove — “when it comes down to it,” “when the moment of truth arrives.”

  Vocabulary

  • przychodzić — to come, to arrive
  • co do czego — what to what — when things get serious

  Grammar note

  A fixed conditional phrase. 'Co do czego' is an idiomatic reduplication expressing the critical moment.

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