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a bone of contention

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kość niezgody

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a bone of contention

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EN · C2

A Shared Car Park

  1. A

    What are the neighbours arguing about?

    O co spierają się sąsiedzi?

  2. B

    The car park is their bone of contention.

    Parking to ich kość niezgody.

  3. A

    Aren't the spaces marked?

    Nie ma oznaczeń miejsc?

  4. B

    That's what they want to settle.

    Właśnie to chcą ustalić.

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Translations

Polishkość niezgodyidiomNo voice for this language is installed. Speech practice is still available.
Germanein ZankapfelidiomNo voice for this language is installed. Speech practice is still available.
Spanishun motivo de discordiaexpressionNo voice for this language is installed. Speech practice is still available.
Russianяблоко раздораidiomNo voice for this language is installed. Speech practice is still available.

Examples of use

Polish

Granica pozostaje kością niezgody.

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English

The boundary remains a bone of contention.

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German

Die Grenze bleibt ein Zankapfel.

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Spanish

La frontera sigue siendo un motivo de discordia.

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Russian

Граница остаётся яблоком раздора.

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Grammar

idiom

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a bone of contention
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Example

The boundary remains a bone of contention.

cut no ice

nie robić żadnego wrażenia

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Hobson's choice

wybór bez rzeczywistej alternatywy

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carry coals to Newcastle

wozić drzewo do lasu

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cut the Gordian knot

przeciąć węzeł gordyjski

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a straw in the wind

drobny znak przyszłych zmian

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a fly in the ointment

drobna wada psująca całość

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The order of the names became a bone of contention, even though the main scope of the collaboration had long been agreed.

Spór o kolejność nazwisk stał się kością niezgody, mimo że zasadniczy zakres współpracy dawno uzgodniono.

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The allocation of the last places became a bone of contention, although we had agreed the rest of the plan without much difficulty.

Podział ostatnich miejsc stał się kością niezgody, choć wcześniej uzgodniliśmy resztę planu bez większych trudności.

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When recognition becomes an end in itself, it is easy to lose sight of the cause it was meant to serve.

Gdy uznanie staje się celem samym w sobie, łatwo stracić z oczu sprawę, której miało służyć.

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This freedom is a double-edged sword: it allows action to be adapted to the situation but makes it harder to compare individuals' responsibilities.

Ta swoboda jest mieczem obosiecznym: pozwala dostosować działanie do sytuacji, ale utrudnia porównanie odpowiedzialności poszczególnych osób.

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The Achilles' heel of this plan is not a shortage of ideas but dependence on a single source of information whose reliability has not been checked.

Piętą achillesową tego planu jest nie brak pomysłów, lecz zależność od jednego źródła informacji, którego wiarygodności nie sprawdzono.

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A seemingly technical amendment may become a Trojan horse for a change whose consequences participants had no opportunity to discuss.

Pozornie techniczna poprawka może stać się koniem trojańskim dla zmiany, której skutków uczestnicy nie mieli możliwości przedyskutować.

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