word for word

in exactly the same words; verbatim.

one word at a time, without regard for the sense of the whole: She translated the book word for word.

Origin of word for word

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

word-for-word, adjective

Conor has described, all but word-for-word, the position of the evangelical “post-culture warrior.”

The Illusory Promise of Apolitical Theology |David Sessions |June 2, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
"Women and children starboard," came like a near, word-for-word echo.

Atlantis |Gerhart Hauptmann
The impossibility of such a thing as a word-for-word bringing over from one language into another.

Defense of the Faith and the Saints (Volume 1 of 2) |B. H. Roberts
Full hieroglyphic text, interlinear transliteration, word-for-word translation, smooth translation.

Life Histories of North American Wood Warblers Part One and Part Two |Arthur Bent

But the chief instrument of her vindication is the word-for-word record of her trial at Rouen in 1431.

How France Built Her Cathedrals |Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

word for word

Exactly as written or spoken, as in That was the forecast, word for word. Chaucer used this idiom in the late 1300s.