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"ref": "1918, Peter B. Kyne, chapter 36, in The Valley of the Giants",
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"ref": "2021 April 8, “Brace for the Amazon effect on live sport”, in The Economist, →ISSN",
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"sense": "to pay a high price",
"word": "maksaa maltaita"
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"sense": "to pay a high price",
"word": "débourser une fortune"
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"sense": "to pay a high price",
"word": "tief in die Tasche greifen müssen"
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"word": "borsos árat fizet"
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"sense": "to pay a high price",
"word": "blæða"
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"word": "punga út"
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"word": "greiða okurverð"
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"sense": "to pay a high price",
"word": "maksāt baltu naudu"
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"sense": "to pay a high price",
"word": "pagar os olhos da cara"
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},
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},
{
"ref": "2021 April 8, “Brace for the Amazon effect on live sport”, in The Economist, →ISSN",
"text": "At a time when other entertainment is available at a sliver of the price from Netflix and other streaming services, live sport is the only thing left to induce viewers to pay through the nose for pay-TV.",
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"sense": "to pay a high price",
"word": "被敲竹槓"
},
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bèi qiāozhúkàng",
"sense": "to pay a high price",
"word": "被敲竹杠"
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"sense": "to pay a high price",
"word": "blauw betalen"
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"sense": "to pay a high price",
"word": "maksaa maltaita"
},
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"sense": "to pay a high price",
"word": "débourser une fortune"
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"sense": "to pay a high price",
"word": "payer une fortune"
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"sense": "to pay a high price",
"word": "payer le prix fort"
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"word": "acheter à prix d’or"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "to pay a high price",
"word": "payer bonbon"
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"sense": "to pay a high price",
"word": "tief in die Tasche greifen müssen"
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"sense": "to pay a high price",
"word": "borsos árat fizet"
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"code": "is",
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"sense": "to pay a high price",
"word": "blæða"
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{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to pay a high price",
"word": "punga út"
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{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to pay a high price",
"word": "greiða okurverð"
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{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "to pay a high price",
"word": "maksāt baltu naudu"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "to pay a high price",
"word": "maksāt traku naudu"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "to pay a high price",
"tags": [
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"word": "przepłacać"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "to pay a high price",
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"sense": "to pay a high price",
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"word": "pay through the nose"
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