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Climate activist Greta Thunberg received quite a bit of heat this past weekend for misspeaking at climate protest, as well for seemingly calling out a German train company.

“World leaders are still trying to run away from their responsibilities, but we have to make sure they cannot do that,” Thunberg said at a climate march in Turin, Italy on Friday, after attending the UN climate summit COP25 in Madrid.

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“We will make sure that we put them against the wall, and they will have to do their job to protect our futures.”

People quickly took issue with the latter part of the teenager’s speech, claiming the phrase incites violence and refers to executing people by firing squad, against a wall.

On Saturday, Thunberg took to Twitter to clarify what she meant.

“Yesterday I said we must hold our leaders accountable and unfortunately said ‘put them against the wall’. That’s Swenglish: ‘att ställa någon mot väggen’ (to put someone against the wall) means to hold someone accountable,” she tweeted. “That’s what happens when you improvise speeches in a second language.”