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"text": "2005, David Else & Oliver Berry, Lonely Planet: England\nIf you really want to get stuck into a bit of archaeology, check out the Archaeological Resource Centre ..."
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"ref": "2011, Pippa de Bruyn, Keith Bain, Frommer's South Africa, unnumbered page",
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},
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"ref": "2003, Alasdair Duncan, Sushi Central, page 16",
"text": "My dad′s getting stuck into me at the moment. He doesn′t think my English is good enough.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Kenneth Stanley Inglis, Whose ABC?: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1983-2006, page 157",
"text": "Discussion, as Jackson notes, was lively, ‘with the union (through Cleary and Aarons) getting stuck into management and we getting stuck into them’.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"text": "2009, James Roy, Town, Easyread Large Bold Edition, page 22,\nOf course there are some kids who get stuck into him, and sometimes that′ll make him curl up like a poked snail. But they don't do that very much anymore, because most of the other kids get stuck into them when that happens."
}
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"(Australia) To criticise someone; tell off; to get angry at; to attack."
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