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"sense": "to achieve benefits, especially financial ones",
"word": "line one's pockets"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to achieve benefits, especially financial ones",
"word": "täyttää taskujaan"
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"code": "is",
"english": "to poke fire to one's cake",
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"sense": "to achieve benefits, especially financial ones",
"word": "skara eld að eigin köku"
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"english": "to warm one's hands",
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"sense": "to achieve benefits, especially financial ones",
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"word": "нагре́ть ру́ки"
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"word": "наби́ть карма́ны"
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"english": "to fatten one's fingers",
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"sense": "to achieve benefits, especially financial ones",
"word": "s' ecråxhî les doets"
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"sense": "to achieve benefits, especially financial ones",
"word": "pluo ei nyth"
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"sense": "to achieve benefits, especially financial ones",
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"sense": "to achieve benefits, especially financial ones",
"word": "skara eld að eigin köku"
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"word": "нагре́ть ру́ки"
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"word": "наби́ть карма́ны"
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"sense": "to achieve benefits, especially financial ones",
"word": "s' ecråxhî les doets"
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"sense": "to achieve benefits, especially financial ones",
"word": "pluo ei nyth"
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