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"ref": "1998 September 27, Rich G., “ok”, in alt.games.diablo (Usenet)",
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"ref": "2005 April 16, Roger Whitehead, uk.rec.photo.misc (Usenet)",
"text": "Invest in some Drachenfutter* as well, then. . . . *You'll know the principle even if you don't know the term. It's 'dragon fodder', what errant German husbands give their wives when they've been up to something she'll disapprove of.",
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"english": "The next time the man put a little rat poison in the dragon fodder.",
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"ref": "2015, Susanne Aernecke, Septemberkinder. Eine Kapitänstochter auf den Spuren ihres Vaters, Dumont Buchverlag",
"text": "Warum er den mächtigen Schwiegerdrachen aus München, der keinen Hehl aus seiner Abneigung machte, nicht beiseitegefegt oder mit Drachenfutter (Pralinen oder Blumen) besänftigt hat?",
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"ref": "2005 April 16, Roger Whitehead, uk.rec.photo.misc (Usenet)",
"text": "Invest in some Drachenfutter* as well, then. . . . *You'll know the principle even if you don't know the term. It's 'dragon fodder', what errant German husbands give their wives when they've been up to something she'll disapprove of.",
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"ref": "2014, Jane Thynne, A War of Flowers",
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"ref": "2015, Susanne Aernecke, Septemberkinder. Eine Kapitänstochter auf den Spuren ihres Vaters, Dumont Buchverlag",
"text": "Warum er den mächtigen Schwiegerdrachen aus München, der keinen Hehl aus seiner Abneigung machte, nicht beiseitegefegt oder mit Drachenfutter (Pralinen oder Blumen) besänftigt hat?",
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