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"word": "full tilt boogie"
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"word": "on the loose"
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"sense": "not under control",
"word": "(wymknąć) spod kontroli"
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"sense": "not under control",
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"ref": "1944 November and December, “Notes and News: Bufferstop Collisions in Northern Ireland”, in Railway Magazine, page 370",
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