See hold my beer in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "Suggesting that the speaker is holding a beer and needs someone else to hold it while they perform some act.",
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"ref": "2008, Kiven Hopper, One Hundred and One Dirty Nasty Disgusting Jokes You'll Love Reading, page 227:",
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"ref": "2010, Virginia Alene, Catch And Release, page 18:",
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"ref": "2016, Tom Phillips et al., “18 Tweets About How America Has Out-Brexited Brexit”, in BuzzFeed:",
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"word": "fogd/fogjátok meg a söröm"
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"sense": "I am about to do something crazy",
"word": "potrzymaj mi piwo"
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"roman": "poderži mojó pivo",
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