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"etymology_text": "From the common western business hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.",
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"text": "1976 March, advertisement, Popular Mechanics, page 44,\nBy day, he′s a 9-to-5 man. By night, an explorer in a field that really interests him!"
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"ref": "2005 December, Zondra Hughes, “Save Your Marriage Now!: Divorce-Busters That Work”, in Ebony, page 146",
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"roman": "cháo jiǔ wǎn wǔ",
"sense": "day job",
"word": "朝九晚五"
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"word": "de neuf à cinq"
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"word": "von neun bis fünf"
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"word": "九時五時"
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"roman": "s devjatí do pjatí",
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"text": "2000, Renata Somogyi, Inner Peace in a 9-To-5 World: Attaining Enlightenment Amidst the Chaos:",
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"ref": "2006 July, Max King, “Leading Edge: It′s Good to be King”, in Running Times, page 58",
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"text": "2010 January-February, Lou′s Clues: Getting to Work (editorial), Ancestry Magazine, page 6,\nAnd you might decide that our 9-to-5s today just aren′t so tough."
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"ref": "2009, Scott Brown, Treat Your Poker Like a Business, page 101",
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"word": "朝九晚五"
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