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  What it means

  Literally “to catch someone by their little words.” Means to nitpick, to catch someone out on minor verbal slips — “to pick holes in what someone says,” “to catch someone on a technicality.”

  Vocabulary

  • słówko — little word (diminutive of słowo)

  Grammar note

  'Za słówka' uses the accusative plural of 'słówko' after 'za'. The diminutive emphasises the pettiness of the nitpicking.

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