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"sense": "derogatory: a German person",
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"text": "But if Fritz is stationed in that patch of woodland, we've got no chance!"
},
{
"text": "You! Fritz! Tell us where the ammunition's kept!"
},
{
"ref": "1923, Frank Fox, “The Man-Made Earthquake”, in Charles Francis Horne, The Great Events of the Great War, volume 5",
"text": "[…]so Fritz could sleep easily in his trench, so far as mines were concerned; and Fritz, confident in his Herr Professors, altogether neglected any attempt to counter-mine.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1952, Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler and Yury Bit-Yunan, Stalingrad, page 227",
"text": "'Fritz is pounding away at the crossing,' he said. 'We'd do better to wait till things quieten down.'",
"type": "quotation"
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