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"To pinch one's nostrils closed with one's fingers, usually to block out an unpleasant smell."
],
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"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to pinch one's nostrils closed with one's fingers",
"word": "pidellä nenäänsä"
},
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"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to pinch one's nostrils closed with one's fingers",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "zatykać nos"
},
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"_dis1": "89 11",
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"sense": "to pinch one's nostrils closed with one's fingers",
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"ref": "2010, Hank Paulson, On The Brink",
"text": "To the public, AIG symbolized everything that had gone wrong with the system […] But like the president, I understood that we had to hold our noses and save the company in order to protect the frail financial system.",
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"To reluctantly overcome one's revulsion."
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"(figurative) To reluctantly overcome one's revulsion."
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"note": "verb + pitkin hampain",
"sense": "to reluctantly overcome one's revulsion"
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"word": "zatkać nos"
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"word": "hold one's nose"
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"To reluctantly overcome one's revulsion."
],
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"(figurative) To reluctantly overcome one's revulsion."
],
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to pinch one's nostrils closed with one's fingers",
"word": "pidellä nenäänsä"
},
{
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to pinch one's nostrils closed with one's fingers",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "zatykać nos"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to pinch one's nostrils closed with one's fingers",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zatkać nos"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"note": "verb + pitkin hampain",
"sense": "to reluctantly overcome one's revulsion"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to reluctantly overcome one's revulsion",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "zatykać nos"
},
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to reluctantly overcome one's revulsion",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zatkać nos"
}
],
"word": "hold one's nose"
}
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