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"text": "Play with fire and you get burned.",
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"ref": "2013, Al Gore, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, New York: Random House, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 310–311",
"text": "Long predicted by climate models, stratospheric cooling is a result of the Earth’s atmosphere attempting to maintain its energy \"balance.\" Much more work will need to be performed before this troubling surprise is fully understood, but it already illustrates the recklessness of this \"planetary experiment\" that humanity has under way. We are not only playing with fire, but ice as well. As Robert Frost wrote, \"Some say the world will end in fire; some say in ice.\" Either one, he added, \"would suffice.\"",
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"word": "a se juca cu focul"
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"word": "jugar con fuego"
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"roman": "nipputō celagāṭaṁ",
"sense": "put oneself in a precarious situation",
"word": "నిప్పుతో చెలగాటం"
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"ref": "2013, Al Gore, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, New York: Random House, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 310–311",
"text": "Long predicted by climate models, stratospheric cooling is a result of the Earth’s atmosphere attempting to maintain its energy \"balance.\" Much more work will need to be performed before this troubling surprise is fully understood, but it already illustrates the recklessness of this \"planetary experiment\" that humanity has under way. We are not only playing with fire, but ice as well. As Robert Frost wrote, \"Some say the world will end in fire; some say in ice.\" Either one, he added, \"would suffice.\"",
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"word": "لَعِبَ بِالنَّار"
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"word": "гуляць з агнём"
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"sense": "put oneself in a precarious situation",
"word": "玩火"
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"sense": "put oneself in a precarious situation",
"word": "引火燒身"
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"word": "引火烧身"
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"sense": "put oneself in a precarious situation",
"word": "lege med ilden"
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"sense": "put oneself in a precarious situation",
"word": "met vuur spelen"
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"word": "leikkiä tulella"
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"word": "jouer avec le feu"
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"sense": "put oneself in a precarious situation",
"word": "παίζω με τη φωτιά"
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"roman": "siẖéq beésh",
"sense": "put oneself in a precarious situation",
"word": "שִׂחֵק בְּאֵשׁ"
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"sense": "put oneself in a precarious situation",
"word": "आग से खेलना"
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"word": "tűzzel játszik"
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"sense": "put oneself in a precarious situation",
"word": "giocare con il fuoco"
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"word": "火遊びをする"
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"word": "leke med ild"
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"sense": "put oneself in a precarious situation",
"word": "bawić się zapałkami"
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"word": "igrać z ogniem"
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"word": "a se juca cu focul"
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"sense": "put oneself in a precarious situation",
"word": "jugar con fuego"
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"sense": "put oneself in a precarious situation",
"word": "leka med elden"
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"roman": "nipputō celagāṭaṁ",
"sense": "put oneself in a precarious situation",
"word": "నిప్పుతో చెలగాటం"
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"roman": "hraty z vohnem",
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"word": "грати з вогнем"
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"word": "бавитися з вогнем"
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"word": "жартувати з вогнем"
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"code": "ur",
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"word": "آگ سے کھیلنا"
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"word": "play with fire"
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