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ЛОВИТЬ КАЖДОЕ СЛОВО чьё coll (V?-, subj: human the verb may take the final position, otherwise fixed WO

to listen to s.o. very attentively, trying to let nothing he says slip by

X ловит каждое Y-ово слово - X hangs on Yb every word

X catches everything Y says X tries not to miss a single word (that) Y says.

Вчерашний трудолюбивый затворник, не читающий газет, превратился в модную и сенсационную фигуру. За ним (Пастернаком) охотились иностранные корреспонденты, ловившие каждое его слово (Гладков 1). The hard-working recluse who never read the newspapers had become almost overnight a sensational, much sought-after figure. He was pursued by foreign journalists who hung on his every word (1a).