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"ref": "1973, “Merry Xmas Everybody”, performed by Slade",
"text": "Are you hanging up a stocking on your wall? / It's the time that every Santa has a ball / Does he ride a red-nosed reindeer? / Does a ton up on his sleigh / Do the fairies keep him sober for a day?",
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"ref": "1998, “Who Let the Dogs Out”, performed by Baha Men",
"text": "When the party was nice, the party was jumpin' / And everybody havin' a ball",
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"ref": "2002, H.H. Fuller, It's a Wrap, Writers Club Press, page 72",
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"ref": "2006, Chrigel Glanzmann (lyrics and music), “Your Gaulish War”, in Spirit, performed by Eluveitie",
"text": "I hope you had a ball in effacing lives!",
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"ref": "2011, “Friday”, performed by Rebecca Black ft. Patrice Wilson",
"text": "Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday / Today i-is Friday, Friday / We-we-we so excited / We so excited / We gonna have a ball today",
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"sense": "to enjoy thoroughly",
"word": "pitää hauskaa"
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"word": "nagyon/borzasztóan jól érzi magát"
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},
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"sense": "to enjoy thoroughly",
"word": "pitää hauskaa"
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"sense": "to enjoy thoroughly",
"word": "s’amuser comme un petit fou"
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"sense": "to enjoy thoroughly",
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"sense": "to enjoy thoroughly",
"word": "Spaß haben"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "to enjoy thoroughly",
"word": "sich bestens amüsieren"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to enjoy thoroughly",
"word": "eine tolle Zeit haben"
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"sense": "to enjoy thoroughly",
"word": "nagyon/borzasztóan jól érzi magát"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to enjoy thoroughly",
"word": "remekül/ragyogóan érzi magát"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to enjoy thoroughly",
"word": "remekül szórakozik"
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"sense": "to enjoy thoroughly",
"word": "skemmta sér konunglega"
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"alt": "たんのうする",
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"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "tannō suru",
"sense": "to enjoy thoroughly",
"word": "堪能する"
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"alt": "まんきつする",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "mankitsu suru",
"sense": "to enjoy thoroughly",
"word": "満喫する"
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to enjoy thoroughly",
"word": "bardzo dobrze się bawić"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to enjoy thoroughly",
"word": "pasarlo pipa"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to enjoy thoroughly",
"word": "pasarlo bomba"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to enjoy thoroughly",
"word": "pasarlo teta"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to enjoy thoroughly",
"word": "pasarlo la mar de bien"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to enjoy thoroughly",
"word": "disfrutar como un enano"
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"word": "have a ball"
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