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  What it means

  Literally “to death and life.” Means a matter of life and death, with everything at stake — “a life-or-death matter,” “to the death.”

  Vocabulary

  • śmierć — death
  • życie — life

  Grammar note

  'Na śmierć i życie' uses the accusative of both nouns after 'na' — a fixed phrase of ultimate stakes.

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