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"etymology_text": "After the highly-regarded American baseball player Mickey Charles Mantle (1931–1995).",
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"ref": "1957 September 20, “Egged On: Meggi Lays Claim To Another Title”, in Park City Daily News",
"text": "Meggi O'Day, the Mickey Mantle of the poultry world, has added another championship to her list of titles. The little Leghorn hen laid another egg....",
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"ref": "1974 October, Boys' Life, volume 64, number 10, page 9",
"text": "It isn't easy to explain why Danny Blancheflower, the Mickey Mantle of English soccer 15 years ago, says, \"Your country is a great frontier town and you have great big attitudes toward things",
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"ref": "1979, Bill Neville, Real steel: an investor's and philosopher's guide to the American automobile, page 22",
"text": "This does not mean that the 1940 Buick was the Mickey Mantle of automobiles, but it was an all-star",
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"ref": "1990, Emily Couric, The Trial Lawyers: The Nation's Top Litigators Tell How They Win, page 163",
"text": "The engineers that were put to work on this are ... the Willie Mayses and the Mickey Mantles of the engineering profession. They are devoted, intelligent, honest engineers.",
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"ref": "1998 February 23, Kristina Dorsey, “'Damn Yankees' Not A Homer, But A Solid Hit”, in The Day",
"text": "\"Damn Yankees\" isn't the Mickey Mantle of musical comedies",
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"ref": "2004, Business week, numbers 3914-3922",
"text": "Says James Swanson, chief investment strategist at MFS Investment Management: \"They are the Mickey Mantles of the investing world.\" Harvard Management has achieved this with a formula that bears little resemblance to that of the average",
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"ref": "2005, R. Simmons, Real Life Lessons for Teens",
"text": "Nearly all the answers were entertainers or athletes, the Mickey Mantles of your generation - until Sept. 11, 2001",
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"ref": "2005, David Ansel, The soup peddler's slow & difficult soups: recipes & reveries, page 148",
"text": "... the Mickey Mantle of soups, then avgolemono, if you'll humor me, is the Eddie Murray of soups",
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"ref": "2007, Christopher Russo with Allen St. John and Matthew Shepatin, The Mad Dog Hall of Fame, page 137",
"text": "And that combination of Hair and efficiency really helped him [Johnny Unitas] become one of football's first television stars, kind of the Mickey Mantle of professional football.",
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"text": "Meggi O'Day, the Mickey Mantle of the poultry world, has added another championship to her list of titles. The little Leghorn hen laid another egg....",
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},
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"ref": "1974 October, Boys' Life, volume 64, number 10, page 9",
"text": "It isn't easy to explain why Danny Blancheflower, the Mickey Mantle of English soccer 15 years ago, says, \"Your country is a great frontier town and you have great big attitudes toward things",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1979, Bill Neville, Real steel: an investor's and philosopher's guide to the American automobile, page 22",
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"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1990, Emily Couric, The Trial Lawyers: The Nation's Top Litigators Tell How They Win, page 163",
"text": "The engineers that were put to work on this are ... the Willie Mayses and the Mickey Mantles of the engineering profession. They are devoted, intelligent, honest engineers.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "1998 February 23, Kristina Dorsey, “'Damn Yankees' Not A Homer, But A Solid Hit”, in The Day",
"text": "\"Damn Yankees\" isn't the Mickey Mantle of musical comedies",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2004, Business week, numbers 3914-3922",
"text": "Says James Swanson, chief investment strategist at MFS Investment Management: \"They are the Mickey Mantles of the investing world.\" Harvard Management has achieved this with a formula that bears little resemblance to that of the average",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2005, R. Simmons, Real Life Lessons for Teens",
"text": "Nearly all the answers were entertainers or athletes, the Mickey Mantles of your generation - until Sept. 11, 2001",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2005, David Ansel, The soup peddler's slow & difficult soups: recipes & reveries, page 148",
"text": "... the Mickey Mantle of soups, then avgolemono, if you'll humor me, is the Eddie Murray of soups",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Christopher Russo with Allen St. John and Matthew Shepatin, The Mad Dog Hall of Fame, page 137",
"text": "And that combination of Hair and efficiency really helped him [Johnny Unitas] become one of football's first television stars, kind of the Mickey Mantle of professional football.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"word": "Mickey Mantle"
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