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"word": "asiaankuulumaton"
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"word": "darum geht es nicht"
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"text": "Judges in the British law courts used to tell lawyers who spoke beside the point or quoted irrelevant cases that they might as well say that Robin Hood in Barnsdale stood."
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},
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"sense": "irrelevant",
"word": "no venir a cuento"
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"word": "no venir al caso"
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"sense": "irrelevantly",
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"word": "beside the point"
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