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"ref": "1856, Charles Kingsley, The Heroes, Story III: Theseus",
"text": "[W]hen Theseus saw him, his heart leapt into his mouth, and he longed to fall on his neck and welcome him."
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"ref": "1910, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 15, in Bucky O'Connor",
"text": "If he expected either of them to fall on his neck and weep tears of gratitude at his pompous announcement, the colonel was disappointed.",
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"ref": "1920, Harold MacGrath, chapter 24, in The Drums Of Jeopardy",
"text": "I ought to fall on your neck with joy. . . . You are my father's friend, my mother's, mine.",
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},
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"ref": "1990 March 18, Anne Tyler, “Review of Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-05-14",
"text": "[T]he moment your delinquent showed the slightest sign of decency . . . you fell on his neck as if he had rescued you from drowning.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "2012, Karen Templeton, chapter 25, in Hanging by a Thread",
"text": "[A]fter falling on my neck and hugging me and calling me “cousin” like a character from a Jane Austen novel, . . . she sat me down.",
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"(dated, idiomatic) To embrace someone affectionately or thankfully."
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"sense": "to embrace someone affectionately or thankfully",
"word": "heittäytyä syliin"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "to embrace someone affectionately or thankfully",
"word": "sauter au cou"
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"sense": "to embrace someone affectionately or thankfully",
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},
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"ref": "1910, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 15, in Bucky O'Connor",
"text": "If he expected either of them to fall on his neck and weep tears of gratitude at his pompous announcement, the colonel was disappointed.",
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"ref": "1920, Harold MacGrath, chapter 24, in The Drums Of Jeopardy",
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},
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},
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"sense": "to embrace someone affectionately or thankfully",
"word": "heittäytyä syliin"
},
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"sense": "to embrace someone affectionately or thankfully",
"word": "sauter au cou"
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"sense": "to embrace someone affectionately or thankfully",
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"word": "obejmować serdecznie"
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