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"ref": "1899, Henry James, chapter 4, in The Awkward Age",
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"ref": "1915, John Buchan, chapter 4, in The Thirty-Nine Steps",
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"ref": "1921, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 10, in Tangled Trails",
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"ref": "2003 May 27, Tony Karon, “Mideast: Can Bush Deliver?”, in Time",
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"code": "can",
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"sense": "to reveal one's true intentions",
"word": "摊牌"
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"sense": "to reveal one's true intentions",
"word": "zijn kaarten op tafel leggen"
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"word": "het achterste van zijn tong laten zien"
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"sense": "to reveal one's true intentions",
"word": "lyödä kortit pöytään"
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"sense": "to reveal one's true intentions",
"word": "abattre ses cartes"
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"sense": "to reveal one's true intentions",
"word": "abattre son jeu"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "to reveal one's true intentions",
"word": "die Karten auf den Tisch legen"
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"sense": "to reveal one's true intentions",
"word": "mettere le carte in tavola"
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"roman": "raskrýtʹ kárty",
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"word": "раскры́ть ка́рты"
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"code": "can",
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"sense": "to reveal one's true intentions",
"word": "摊牌"
},
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"sense": "to reveal one's true intentions",
"word": "zijn kaarten op tafel leggen"
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"sense": "to reveal one's true intentions",
"word": "het achterste van zijn tong laten zien"
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"sense": "to reveal one's true intentions",
"word": "lyödä kortit pöytään"
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"sense": "to reveal one's true intentions",
"word": "abattre ses cartes"
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"sense": "to reveal one's true intentions",
"word": "abattre son jeu"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "to reveal one's true intentions",
"word": "die Karten auf den Tisch legen"
},
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "to reveal one's true intentions",
"word": "mettere le carte in tavola"
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"sense": "to reveal one's true intentions",
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"word": "раскры́ть ка́рты"
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