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"sense": "from poverty to exceptional wealth",
"word": "麻雀變鳳凰"
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"roman": "máquè biàn fènghuáng",
"sense": "from poverty to exceptional wealth",
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"sense": "from poverty to exceptional wealth"
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"sense": "from poverty to exceptional wealth",
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"word": "vom Tellerwäscher zum Millionär"
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"sense": "from poverty to exceptional wealth",
"word": "koldusból királyfi"
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"sense": "from poverty to exceptional wealth",
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"note": "無一文から大金持ちに (むいちもんからおおかねもちに, muichimon-kara ōkanemochi-ni, literally “from penniless to a very rich (person)”)",
"sense": "from poverty to exceptional wealth"
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"sense": "from poverty to exceptional wealth",
"word": "per aspera ad astra"
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"sense": "from poverty to exceptional wealth",
"word": "da miséria a riqueza"
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"sense": "from poverty to exceptional wealth",
"word": "renascido das cinzas"
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"code": "ru",
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"note": "из гря́зи в кня́зи (iz grjázi v knjázi, literally “from dirt to princedom”)",
"sense": "from poverty to exceptional wealth"
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"sense": "from poverty to exceptional wealth",
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