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"ref": "1910, Mary Roberts Rinehart, chapter 2, in When a Man Marries",
"text": "He said that […] Bella had been perfectly right to leave him, because he was a sinking ship, and deserved to be turned out penniless into the world.",
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"ref": "2012 May 30, Haitham Maleh, “Opinion: A Peace Plan in Name Only”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-08-01",
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"Something which is doomed; an impending debacle; an ongoing disaster."
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"(idiomatic) Something which is doomed; an impending debacle; an ongoing disaster."
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "something doomed",
"word": "uppoava laiva"
},
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "something doomed",
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"word": "sinkendes Schiff"
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"sense": "something doomed",
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"word": "tonący okręt"
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"sense": "something doomed",
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"word": "то́нущий кора́бль"
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"sense": "something doomed",
"word": "tha na h-eòin a' falbh às a' chreig"
}
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"sense": "something doomed",
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"sense": "something doomed",
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"word": "sinkendes Schiff"
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"sense": "something doomed",
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"word": "tonący okręt"
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "tónuščij koráblʹ",
"sense": "something doomed",
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"masculine"
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"word": "то́нущий кора́бль"
},
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"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "something doomed",
"word": "tha na h-eòin a' falbh às a' chreig"
}
],
"word": "sinking ship"
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