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"etymology_text": "Literally \"bite the grass\", in the sense of biting the grass in one's death struggle",
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"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"lang_code": "nb",
"pos": "verb",
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"english": "After a violent duel he bit the dust.",
"text": "Etter en voldsom duell bet han i gresset.",
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"glosses": [
"to bite the dust, to die"
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"(idiomatic, euphemistic) to bite the dust, to die"
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"_dis1": "100 0",
"alt": "juxtaposed Bokmål spelling, sole option in Nynorsk",
"word": "bite i graset"
}
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"english": "He bit the dust [lost] to his arch-enemy.",
"text": "Han bet i gresset for sin erkefiende.",
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"to lose"
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"(idiomatic) to lose"
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"text": "Etter en voldsom duell bet han i gresset.",
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"to bite the dust, to die"
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],
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"text": "Han bet i gresset for sin erkefiende.",
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