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"sense": "to neither gain nor lose money",
"word": "不賠不賺"
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"sense": "to neither gain nor lose money",
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"sense": "to neither gain nor lose money",
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"sense": "to neither gain nor lose money",
"word": "不賠不賺"
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bùpéibùzhuàn",
"sense": "to neither gain nor lose money",
"word": "不赔不赚"
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"sense": "to neither gain nor lose money",
"word": "保本"
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"sense": "to neither gain nor lose money",
"word": "olla omillaan"
},
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to neither gain nor lose money",
"word": "päästä omilleen"
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"sense": "to neither gain nor lose money",
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"word": "breikata"
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{
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"sense": "to neither gain nor lose money",
"word": "rentrer dans ses frais"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to neither gain nor lose money",
"word": "mit plus/minus null rauskommen"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to neither gain nor lose money",
"word": "gå jämnt ut"
},
{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to stay the same",
"word": "pysyä ennallaan"
},
{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to stay the same",
"word": "pysyä paikallaan"
},
{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "to stay the same",
"word": "ne pas changer d’un iota"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "to stay the same",
"word": "den Ist-Zustand bewahren"
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