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"ref": "2004, Mark A. Roeder, Someone is Watching, page 138",
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"text": "Angel Batista immediately makes the connection that Quinn has been banging Nadia, a stripper working for Isaac’s people. Quinn adamantly denies that he would steal evidence and then storms into the strip club to demand that Nadia be set free. Unfortunately, they have him by the balls because they could kill Nadia at any moment and destroy Quinn’s police career once and for all if they revealed his tampering with evidence."
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"sense": "to exercise total control over someone",
"word": "jemanden am Wickel haben"
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