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"text": "Insert the plug, press the switch, and Bob's your uncle."
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"text": "You want to go to the stadium? Go straight on until you reach the park, take the first left and Bob's your uncle!"
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"ref": "2011, Lauren O'Farrel, Stitch London: 20 Kooky Ways to Knit the City and More, page 112",
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"word": "Robert's your father's brother"
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"sense": "desirable conclusion is reached",
"word": "就這樣唄"
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"roman": "jiù zhèyàng bei",
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"word": "klaar is Kees"
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"sense": "desirable conclusion is reached",
"word": "se on siinä"
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"word": "le tour est joué"
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"word": "et voilà le travail"
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"word": "c’est parti mon kiki"
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"english": "reaching an outcome",
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"word": "prontinho"
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"sense": "desirable conclusion is reached",
"word": "está no papo"
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"note": "[и] де́ло в шля́пе ([i] délo v šljápe, literally “[and] the business is in the hat”)",
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"word": "dyna ti"
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},
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},
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],
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"sense": "desirable conclusion is reached",
"word": "就這樣唄"
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"roman": "jiù zhèyàng bei",
"sense": "desirable conclusion is reached",
"word": "就这样呗"
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"sense": "desirable conclusion is reached",
"word": "klaar is Kees"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "desirable conclusion is reached",
"word": "se on siinä"
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "desirable conclusion is reached",
"word": "le tour est joué"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "desirable conclusion is reached",
"word": "et voilà le travail"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "desirable conclusion is reached",
"word": "c’est parti mon kiki"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "desirable conclusion is reached",
"word": "und schon haben wir's"
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"sense": "desirable conclusion is reached",
"word": "ennyi (az egész)"
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"english": "reaching an outcome",
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"sense": "desirable conclusion is reached",
"word": "már meg is vagy"
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"english": "reaching a place",
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"sense": "desirable conclusion is reached",
"word": "már ott is vagy"
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"roman": "koj káko tébe?",
"sense": "desirable conclusion is reached",
"word": "кој ка́ко те́бе?"
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"sense": "desirable conclusion is reached",
"word": "pronto"
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"sense": "desirable conclusion is reached",
"word": "prontinho"
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"sense": "desirable conclusion is reached",
"word": "está no papo"
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"sense": "desirable conclusion is reached"
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"sense": "desirable conclusion is reached",
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