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"ref": "2001 October 4, Mary Beard, “11 September”, in London Review of Books, volume 23, number 19, →ISSN",
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"ref": "2007 April 8, Ruth Dudley Edwards, “Kissinger on Black list of witnesses for the defence”, in Irish Independent, retrieved 2010-01-24",
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"word": "get what one asked for"
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{
"word": "get what's coming to one"
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{
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{
"word": "karma"
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"word": "payback"
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{
"word": "poetic justice"
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{
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"sense": "to deserve or merit",
"word": "es verdient haben"
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"sense": "to deserve or merit",
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"word": "напрошуватися"
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"sense": "to deserve or merit",
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"sense": "to deserve or merit",
"word": "ansaita"
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"sense": "to deserve or merit",
"word": "le chercher"
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"sense": "to deserve or merit",
"word": "es verdient haben"
},
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"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "higgía' lo",
"sense": "to deserve or merit",
"word": "הִגִּיעַ לוֹ"
},
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to deserve or merit",
"word": "rászolgál"
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"sense": "to deserve or merit",
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"word": "doigrać się"
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"roman": "naprošuvatysja",
"sense": "to deserve or merit",
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