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"text": "You wouldn't expect teenagers to sing opera, but these kids will knock your socks off.",
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"ref": "2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, page 46",
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"To impress greatly; amaze; stun."
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"(idiomatic) To impress greatly; amaze; stun."
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to impress greatly; amaze; stun",
"word": "slå benene væk under"
},
{
"code": "da",
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"sense": "to impress greatly; amaze; stun",
"word": "slå fødderne væk under"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to impress greatly; amaze; stun",
"word": "elképeszt"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to impress greatly; amaze; stun",
"word": "elkápráztat"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to impress greatly; amaze; stun",
"word": "dob egy hátast (tőle)"
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"sense": "to impress greatly; amaze; stun",
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to impress greatly; amaze; stun",
"word": "slå benene væk under"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to impress greatly; amaze; stun",
"word": "slå fødderne væk under"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to impress greatly; amaze; stun",
"word": "elképeszt"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to impress greatly; amaze; stun",
"word": "elkápráztat"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to impress greatly; amaze; stun",
"word": "dob egy hátast (tőle)"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "to impress greatly; amaze; stun",
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"word": "zrywać beret"
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"sense": "to impress greatly; amaze; stun",
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"word": "zerwać beret"
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],
"word": "knock someone's socks off"
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