word for word

[word for word] {adv. phr.}

In exactly the same words.

* /Mary copied Sally's composition word for word./

* /Joan repeated the conversation word for word./

* /She learned the poem many years ago but she recited it word for word./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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