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"Not yet butchered."
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"ref": "1956, John Weston Walch, Complete Handbook on Farm Policy, volume 2, page 212",
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"ref": "1958, American Capsule News, page 25",
"text": "In 1920, votes at the Republican National Convention were selling at $2,500 on the hoof.",
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"ref": "1970, Canada. Parliament. Senate. Special Committee on Poverty, Proceedings of the Special Senate Committee on Poverty, page 22",
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"ref": "1972, Paul Halmos, The Sociological Review Monograph, number 18, page 198",
"text": "An essential weakness of these results, of course, is that it is not possible to conclude very much about the importance of these various routes like 'a new person joining the firm' (also referred to as technology transfer 'on the hoof')",
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"ref": "1978, Karl Swindt, 429th Fighter Squadron, the \"Retail\" Gang, page 98",
"text": "Stray German cavalry horses are pastured along with many cows in the lush grassland around our tents, and fresh milk is delivered to our doorsteps on the hoof. As a matter of fact, the cows are so numerous we often have to drive them away.",
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"ref": "1986, Don Ball, The Pennsylvania Railroad, 1940s-1950s, page 139",
"text": "Most of the steamers are being \"sold on the hoof\" to the larger scrap dealers.",
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"ref": "1691, Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses: An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops Who […]",
"text": "Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion in that Country in 1641, the Mother fled with our Author and another Child towards England, and landing at Leverpoole in Lancashire, they all beated it on the hoof thence to London,[…]",
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"ref": "2005, Brokeback Mountain, 00:52:30",
"text": "Look at this crowd! Bound to be a lot of pussy on the hoof in a crowd like this."
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"ref": "2009, Margaret Joan Anstee, The House on the Sacred Lake and Other Bolivian Dreams",
"text": "Relaxation, I may say, included long, very hot walks up to the lower slopes of the Tunari, the mountain that dominates the verdant valley of Cochabamba, during which the hyperactive president held discussions on the hoof with local authorities.",
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"ref": "2020 January 2, Christian Wolmar, Rail, page 70",
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"text": "A 150-pound whitetail on the hoof can be reduced to 100 pounds of pure meat.",
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"ref": "1958, American Capsule News, page 25",
"text": "In 1920, votes at the Republican National Convention were selling at $2,500 on the hoof.",
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"ref": "1970, Canada. Parliament. Senate. Special Committee on Poverty, Proceedings of the Special Senate Committee on Poverty, page 22",
"text": "It seems to me that the university degrees as I see them on the hoof in Calgary at any rate serve to widen the gulf between the people who need help and the people who are there to help.",
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},
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"ref": "1972, Paul Halmos, The Sociological Review Monograph, number 18, page 198",
"text": "An essential weakness of these results, of course, is that it is not possible to conclude very much about the importance of these various routes like 'a new person joining the firm' (also referred to as technology transfer 'on the hoof')",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1978, Karl Swindt, 429th Fighter Squadron, the \"Retail\" Gang, page 98",
"text": "Stray German cavalry horses are pastured along with many cows in the lush grassland around our tents, and fresh milk is delivered to our doorsteps on the hoof. As a matter of fact, the cows are so numerous we often have to drive them away.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"text": "Most of the steamers are being \"sold on the hoof\" to the larger scrap dealers.",
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"Alive; embodied in a living animal (including a human); in working order."
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"ref": "1691, Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses: An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops Who […]",
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},
{
"ref": "2005, Brokeback Mountain, 00:52:30",
"text": "Look at this crowd! Bound to be a lot of pussy on the hoof in a crowd like this."
},
{
"ref": "2009, Margaret Joan Anstee, The House on the Sacred Lake and Other Bolivian Dreams",
"text": "Relaxation, I may say, included long, very hot walks up to the lower slopes of the Tunari, the mountain that dominates the verdant valley of Cochabamba, during which the hyperactive president held discussions on the hoof with local authorities.",
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"text": "But billets need not be a great issue, and it is possible that, apart from the first and last nights, choice can be made 'on the hoof'. When on the road, consultation with the map and the clock will indicate when to start looking.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2020 January 2, Christian Wolmar, Rail, page 70",
"text": "To make such an expensive commitment without properly thinking about how best to help travellers on low incomes shows that the policy was developed on the hoof.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"word": "op voet"
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