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"etymology_text": "Literally, the term refers to someone who is outdoors when the weather is cold coming indoors to a warm place. The idiomatic senses were popularized by the title of the novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963) by the British author John le Carré (1931–2020); “the Cold” is a pun on the Cold War, during which the novel is set.",
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"ref": "1963 September, John le Carré [pseudonym; David John Moore Cornwell], “The Circus”, in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Coward-McCann, published 1964, →OCLC, page 23",
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"(espionage) Of a spy: to return home after having gone undercover in enemy territory."
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"sense": "of a spy: to return home after having gone undercover in enemy territory",
"word": "palata kotiin"
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"text": "Long an outsider in Western politics, Portugal came in from the cold after the 1974 Carnation Revolution.",
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"(by extension) To gain widespread acceptance in a group or society, especially where there was not any before."
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"word": "tulla esiin pimennosta"
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"(espionage) Of a spy: to return home after having gone undercover in enemy territory."
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"sense": "of a spy: to return home after having gone undercover in enemy territory",
"word": "palata kotiin"
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