We'd actually have that same argument, almost always word-for-word, at least once a week.

Only a word-for-word record would do justice to their conversation; no description could give any idea of it,so free, so pleasant, so genial, no interruptions, no contradictions; and the mother's part borne all the while with such equal interest and eagerness that no one not seeing her face would dream that she was any other than an elder sister.

There is no translation except a word-for-word translation.

There is no translation except a word-for-word translation.