"Klaatu barada nikto" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From the 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still, in which an alien named Klaatu tells an Earthwoman a code phrase for his robot Gort. See first citation.",
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          "ref": "1951, The Day the Earth Stood Still:",
          "text": "If anything should happen to me you must go to Gort, you must say these words, 'Klaatu barada nikto', please repeat that.",
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          "ref": "2002, Jack Womack, Going, Going, Gone, Grove Press, page 160:",
          "text": "When I tried to make out the lingo I felt like a missionary among the heathen chinee. ¶ 'Interavesting per sliptimper transgratisfy allayvoo —' ¶ 'Not the old klaatu barada again,' I said ....",
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          "ref": "2003, Paul McAuley, Whole Wide World, Macmillan, page 215:",
          "text": "He glared down at me and said, \"On your way, fella. This is a legitimate club.\" ¶ \"Klaatu barada nikto,\" I said, but it went straight past him.",
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          "ref": "2004, James Hold, Out of Texas, iUniverse, page 56:",
          "text": "The Systems Analysis department featured a clock with only one hand and the motto Klaatu barada nikto, which, roughly translated, means: \"IF IT AIN'T BROKE, JUST GIVE ME TIME.\"",
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          "ref": "2012, Terry Bisson, Any Day Now, Penguin, page ??:",
          "text": "It looked like something from Arthur C. Clarke, a space station that had ... fallen to earth .... ¶ \"Klaatu barada nikto,\" he muttered.",
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        "A stock science-fiction phrase, typically used as a code or shibboleth."
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  "etymology_text": "From the 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still, in which an alien named Klaatu tells an Earthwoman a code phrase for his robot Gort. See first citation.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2002, Jack Womack, Going, Going, Gone, Grove Press, page 160:",
          "text": "When I tried to make out the lingo I felt like a missionary among the heathen chinee. ¶ 'Interavesting per sliptimper transgratisfy allayvoo —' ¶ 'Not the old klaatu barada again,' I said ....",
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          "text": "He glared down at me and said, \"On your way, fella. This is a legitimate club.\" ¶ \"Klaatu barada nikto,\" I said, but it went straight past him.",
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          "text": "The Systems Analysis department featured a clock with only one hand and the motto Klaatu barada nikto, which, roughly translated, means: \"IF IT AIN'T BROKE, JUST GIVE ME TIME.\"",
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