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"word": "yield up the ghost"
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"ref": "1988, Barbara Hambly, The silicon mage, page 5:",
"text": "Whatever air-conditioning system the car had once possessed had bitten the big one years ago; ...",
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"To break down; to be impossible to repair or not worth repairing."
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"(slang) To break down; to be impossible to repair or not worth repairing."
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"ref": "1990, Norman Spinrad, Science fiction in the real world, page 183:",
"text": "Empire of the Sun was an enormous literary and commercial success in Britain but pretty much bit the Big One on its own in the United States.",
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"To perform poorly; to fail."
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"(idiomatic) To perform poorly; to fail."
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"ref": "1996, Stephen Kimball, Death duty, page 9:",
"text": "To Verdi, it bit the big one, but that was the way it worked.",
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"glosses": [
"To be unpleasant or undesirable."
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"(slang) To be unpleasant or undesirable."
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"To perform fellatio."
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"(slang) To perform fellatio."
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