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"text": "Them's fighting words in my country!"
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"ref": "2003, Marjorie Kelly, The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, page xi",
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"ref": "1925 April 11, \"Books\", in The New Yorker, page 26",
"text": "It seems like a fighting insult, but he explains."
},
{
"ref": "1947, Hold That Lion! (film)",
"text": "Them's fighting words in my country!"
},
{
"ref": "2003, Marjorie Kelly, The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, page xi",
"text": "Those are fighting words, of course, and the people who presently hold the high ground of economic power in society will not be amused.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"Apt to provoke a fight."
],
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"fight"
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "engaged in a fight",
"word": "bojující"
},
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "engaged in a fight",
"word": "taisteleva"
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "engaged in a fight",
"word": "kämpferisch"
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"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "engaged in a fight",
"word": "co-streeuagh"
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"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "engaged in a fight",
"word": "troddanagh"
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"sense": "engaged in a fight",
"word": "bakadjoo"
},
{
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"sense": "engaged in a fight",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"code": "pl",
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "engaged in a fight",
"word": "бо́рющийся"
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"lang": "Russian",
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"word": "сража́ющийся"
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"word": "бью́щийся"
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"sense": "engaged in a fight",
"word": "деру́щийся"
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"word": "вою́ющий"
}
],
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"word": "armored combat fighting"
},
{
"word": "armored fighting vehicle"
},
{
"word": "armoured combat fighting"
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{
"word": "armoured fighting vehicle"
},
{
"word": "bullfighting"
},
{
"word": "cage fighting"
},
{
"word": "Chinese fighting stick"
},
{
"word": "cock-fighting"
},
{
"word": "fighting chair"
},
{
"word": "fighting cock"
},
{
"word": "fighting fish"
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{
"word": "fighting fit"
},
{
"word": "fighting game"
},
{
"word": "fighting irons"
},
{
"word": "fighting spirit"
},
{
"word": "fighting stick"
},
{
"word": "fighting words"
},
{
"word": "fire fighting"
},
{
"word": "freedom fighting"
},
{
"word": "infantry fighting vehicle"
},
{
"word": "in fighting trim"
},
{
"word": "kite fighting"
},
{
"word": "Siamese fighting fish"
},
{
"word": "stick-fighting"
},
{
"word": "stink fighting"
},
{
"word": "sword fighting"
},
{
"word": "z-fighting"
}
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"name": "desc"
}
],
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}
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"ref": "1613, “The Costlie Whore”, in A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV.",
"text": "Then here the warres end, here our fightings marde, Yet by your leave Ile stand upon my Guard.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1840, Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History",
"text": "Seid had fallen in the War of Tabuc, the first of Mahomet's fightings with the Greeks.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1860, John Yeardley, Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel",
"text": "A good many soldiers, and some officers, were present; but the expression of our dissent from all wars and fightings had not displeased them, for they shook hands with US most kindly.",
"type": "quotation"
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ṣirāʕ",
"sense": "the act or process of contending; violence or conflict",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "صِرَاع"
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"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "the act or process of contending; violence or conflict",
"word": "upiganaji"
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