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"text": "PS. I hope you will be enabled by Hook, or by Crook, to send B---- and H---- together with a certain Mr. Guthrie, to Philadelphia for their winter Quarters."
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"(idiomatic) By any means possible; one way or another."
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "de grat o per força"
},
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "de tota manera"
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"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "千方百計"
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"roman": "qiānfāngbǎijì",
"sense": "by any means possible",
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "不擇手段"
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"roman": "bùzéshǒuduàn",
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"word": "koste hvad det vil"
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"word": "med hiv og sving"
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"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "puukoin ja puntarein"
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"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "keinolla millä hyvänsä"
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"word": "de gré ou de force"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "coûte que coûte"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "quoi qu’il en coûte"
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"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "por calquer xeito"
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"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "como for"
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"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "auf Biegen und Brechen"
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"word": "auf Teufel komm raus"
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{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "um jeden Preis"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "mit Haken und Ösen"
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"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "bármi áron"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "bármilyen eszközzel"
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{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "ha törik, ha szakad"
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"word": "unde unde"
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"sense": "by any means possible",
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"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "como for"
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"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "por bem ou por mal"
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"roman": "vsémi právdami i neprávdami",
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"roman": "ne mytʹjóm, tak kátanʹjem",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "не мытьём, так ка́таньем"
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"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "a dh'olc no a dh'èiginn"
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"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "olc no èiginn"
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"word": "por todos los medios"
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"word": "de una forma u otra"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "de grado o por fuerza"
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},
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"sense": "by any means possible",
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"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "på ett eller annat sätt"
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"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "ēdō vidhaṅgā",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "ఏదో విధంగా"
},
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"code": "th",
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"roman": "mâi-dâai-dûai-lêe-gɔ̂-ao-dûai-gon mâi-dâai-dûai-mon-gɔ̂-ao-dûai-kaa-tǎa",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "ไม่ได้ด้วยเล่ห์ก็เอาด้วยกล ไม่ได้ด้วยมนต์ก็เอาด้วยคาถา"
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"code": "ca",
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"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "de grat o per força"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "de tota manera"
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"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "千方百計"
},
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"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "qiānfāngbǎijì",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "千方百计"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "不擇手段"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bùzéshǒuduàn",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "不择手段"
},
{
"code": "da",
"english": "no matter the cost",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "koste hvad det vil"
},
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"code": "da",
"english": "by a great effort",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "med hiv og sving"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "puukoin ja puntarein"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "keinolla millä hyvänsä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "de gré ou de force"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "coûte que coûte"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "quoi qu’il en coûte"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "por calquer xeito"
},
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "como for"
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"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "auf Biegen und Brechen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "auf Teufel komm raus"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "um jeden Preis"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "mit Haken und Ösen"
},
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "bármi áron"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "bármilyen eszközzel"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "ha törik, ha szakad"
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"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "unde unde"
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"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "nie przebierając w środkach"
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"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "como for"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "por bem ou por mal"
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"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "все́ми пра́вдами и непра́вдами"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "ne mytʹjóm, tak kátanʹjem",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "не мытьём, так ка́таньем"
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"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "a dh'olc no a dh'èiginn"
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"word": "olc no èiginn"
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"word": "por todos los medios"
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"word": "de grado o por fuerza"
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"roman": "ēdō vidhaṅgā",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "ఏదో విధంగా"
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"code": "th",
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"roman": "mâi-dâai-dûai-lêe-gɔ̂-ao-dûai-gon mâi-dâai-dûai-mon-gɔ̂-ao-dûai-kaa-tǎa",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "ไม่ได้ด้วยเล่ห์ก็เอาด้วยกล ไม่ได้ด้วยมนต์ก็เอาด้วยคาถา"
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