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"ref": "1958 December 15, “Juno's Gold Cone”, in Time",
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}
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"To hit the moon, with a rocket or by other means."
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"word": "moon shot"
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"word": "grand slam"
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"word": "onwards and upwards"
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"word": "over the moon"
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"word": "play to win"
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"word": "shoot for the stars"
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"word": "the sky is the limit"
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"sense": "hit the moon",
"word": "laukaista kuuhun"
}
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"ref": "1981 May 18, John DeMott, “Sky-High Interest Rates”, in Time",
"text": "Already orbiting at altitudes unimaginable a few short years ago, interest rates moved even higher last week and threatened to shoot the moon.",
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"To attain great heights, a high value, or a numerically high measurement."
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"(figuratively, by extension) To attain great heights, a high value, or a numerically high measurement."
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"_dis1": "2 88 8 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "attain great heights",
"word": "tavoitella kuuta taivaalta"
},
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"_dis1": "2 88 8 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "attain great heights",
"word": "durch die Decke gehen"
}
]
},
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"langcode": "en",
"name": "Card games",
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"text": "In our last hand of pinochle, Leon and Janet shot the moon, taking all 50 tricks."
},
{
"text": "When Randy took the queen of spades on the last trick in our game of hearts, he shot the moon."
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"(card games) To achieve the lowest or highest score possible, such that the player is usually rewarded with bonus points."
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"sense": "achieve the lowest or highest score possible",
"word": "puhaltaa"
},
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"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "achieve the lowest or highest score possible",
"word": "storeslem"
},
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"_dis1": "1 8 88 2",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "achieve the lowest or highest score possible",
"word": "kafa atmak"
}
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"ref": "1908, Bram Stoker, A Moon-Light Effect",
"text": "So that is how the old rascal shot the moon. He is off on blue water by this time with his whole outfit, and will come back with a fortune. The landlord won't grumble, because Schoolbred must pay his rent, […]",
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},
{
"ref": "1950, Christopher Morley, Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763 (Preface)",
"text": "Perhaps it was Powlett's memory of Boswell's charm that caused him, when he shot the moon and moved to France to escape creditors, to take with him his father-in-law's papers.",
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"To abscond without paying one's rent."
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"(slang) To abscond without paying one's rent."
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"word": "onwards and upwards"
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"word": "over the moon"
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"word": "play to win"
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"ref": "1958 December 15, “Juno's Gold Cone”, in Time",
"text": "The Army, making its first attempt to shoot the moon, had spent weeks fussing over the Juno II, a 60-ton Jupiter IRBM with a spike of high-speed rockets.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "1981 May 18, John DeMott, “Sky-High Interest Rates”, in Time",
"text": "Already orbiting at altitudes unimaginable a few short years ago, interest rates moved even higher last week and threatened to shoot the moon.",
"type": "quotation"
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"To attain great heights, a high value, or a numerically high measurement."
],
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"(figuratively, by extension) To attain great heights, a high value, or a numerically high measurement."
],
"tags": [
"broadly",
"figuratively"
]
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"en:Card games"
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"text": "In our last hand of pinochle, Leon and Janet shot the moon, taking all 50 tricks."
},
{
"text": "When Randy took the queen of spades on the last trick in our game of hearts, he shot the moon."
}
],
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"To achieve the lowest or highest score possible, such that the player is usually rewarded with bonus points."
],
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"(card games) To achieve the lowest or highest score possible, such that the player is usually rewarded with bonus points."
],
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"ref": "1908, Bram Stoker, A Moon-Light Effect",
"text": "So that is how the old rascal shot the moon. He is off on blue water by this time with his whole outfit, and will come back with a fortune. The landlord won't grumble, because Schoolbred must pay his rent, […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1950, Christopher Morley, Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763 (Preface)",
"text": "Perhaps it was Powlett's memory of Boswell's charm that caused him, when he shot the moon and moved to France to escape creditors, to take with him his father-in-law's papers.",
"type": "quotation"
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],
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"To abscond without paying one's rent."
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"(slang) To abscond without paying one's rent."
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"translations": [
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "hit the moon",
"word": "laukaista kuuhun"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "attain great heights",
"word": "tavoitella kuuta taivaalta"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "attain great heights",
"word": "durch die Decke gehen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "achieve the lowest or highest score possible",
"word": "puhaltaa"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "achieve the lowest or highest score possible",
"word": "storeslem"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "achieve the lowest or highest score possible",
"word": "kafa atmak"
}
],
"word": "shoot the moon"
}
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