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  What it means

  Literally “to put the matter on the edge of a knife.” To bring a situation to a head or to force a final, decisive outcome. “To push matters to the limit.”

  Vocabulary

  • ostrze — edge / blade
  • nóż — knife

  Grammar note

  Genitive 'noża' after 'ostrze'.

  Intermediate

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