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},
{
"form": "catching sight of",
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},
{
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"ref": "2012 April 18, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 1-0 Barcelona”, in BBC Sport",
"text": "Di Matteo clearly saw Drogba's power as a potential threat to a Barcelona defence stripped of Gerard Pique - but he barely caught sight of goal in a first 45 minutes in which the Catalans exerted their technical superiority.",
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"(transitive, idiomatic) to see for a brief period; to get a glimpse of"
],
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"translations": [
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to glimpse",
"word": "apercevoir"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to glimpse",
"word": "entrevoir"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to glimpse",
"word": "wahrnehmen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to glimpse",
"word": "észrevesz"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to glimpse",
"word": "megpillant"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to glimpse",
"word": "scorgere"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to glimpse",
"word": "intravedere"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to glimpse",
"word": "conspicor"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to glimpse",
"word": "aperceber"
},
{
"code": "rgn",
"lang": "Romagnol",
"sense": "to glimpse",
"word": "aducêr"
},
{
"code": "rgn",
"lang": "Romagnol",
"sense": "to glimpse",
"word": "ducêr"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to glimpse",
"word": "întrezări"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to glimpse",
"word": "zări"
},
{
"code": "txb",
"lang": "Tocharian B",
"sense": "to glimpse",
"word": "läk-"
}
]
}
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"tags": [
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"word": "catch sight of"
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"text": "Di Matteo clearly saw Drogba's power as a potential threat to a Barcelona defence stripped of Gerard Pique - but he barely caught sight of goal in a first 45 minutes in which the Catalans exerted their technical superiority.",
"type": "quotation"
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],
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"links": [
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],
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to glimpse",
"word": "apercevoir"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to glimpse",
"word": "entrevoir"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to glimpse",
"word": "wahrnehmen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to glimpse",
"word": "észrevesz"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to glimpse",
"word": "megpillant"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to glimpse",
"word": "scorgere"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to glimpse",
"word": "intravedere"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to glimpse",
"word": "conspicor"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to glimpse",
"word": "aperceber"
},
{
"code": "rgn",
"lang": "Romagnol",
"sense": "to glimpse",
"word": "aducêr"
},
{
"code": "rgn",
"lang": "Romagnol",
"sense": "to glimpse",
"word": "ducêr"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to glimpse",
"word": "întrezări"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to glimpse",
"word": "zări"
},
{
"code": "txb",
"lang": "Tocharian B",
"sense": "to glimpse",
"word": "läk-"
}
],
"word": "catch sight of"
}
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