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"etymology_text": "Referring to the obviousness of a domestic dog's testicles.",
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"form": "sticking out like dog's balls",
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"ref": "2014, Andrew Balaam, Bush War Operator, page 52",
"text": "We had stopped in a newly ploughed mealie (maize) field, out in the open, sticking out like dog's balls.",
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"ref": "2017, Jacqueline Z. Wilson, Sarah Hodgkinson, Justin Piché, The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Tourism, page 333",
"text": "The moment of my life that sticks out like dog's balls are the times when my family was being split up and placed in institutions.",
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"ref": "2018, Edward Bowman, A Year in the Life of a Vietnam Adviser",
"text": "With our height above the Viets, we stick out like dog's balls as it is.",
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"Be very noticeably different, especially in a negative way; to be particularly obtrusive, conspicuous, blatant, or prominent; to attract undue attention or notice."
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"(simile) Be very noticeably different, especially in a negative way; to be particularly obtrusive, conspicuous, blatant, or prominent; to attract undue attention or notice."
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"word": "stick out like a sore thumb"
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"word": "stick out a mile"
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"word": "stand out"
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"word": "stick out like dog's balls"
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"ref": "2017, Jacqueline Z. Wilson, Sarah Hodgkinson, Justin Piché, The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Tourism, page 333",
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"(simile) Be very noticeably different, especially in a negative way; to be particularly obtrusive, conspicuous, blatant, or prominent; to attract undue attention or notice."
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"word": "stick out like a sore thumb"
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