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"text": "Several trucks rushed by, a stone's throw away from us."
},
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"text": "1 March 2018, Tusdiq Din on BBC Sport, Mohamed Salah: Is Liverpool striker's success improving engagement with Muslim fans?\nA stone's throw from The Hawthorns is Oldbury, home to Baggies fan Ashley Rawlins."
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"sense": "short distance",
"word": "co by kamenem dohodil"
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"word": "kiviviske kaugusel"
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"word": "kivenheitto"
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"word": "à deux pas"
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"word": "à un jet de pierre"
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"word": "tiro de pedra"
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"word": "kőhajításnyi"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "short distance",
"word": "due passi"
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"note": "руко́й пода́ть (rukój podátʹ, literally “within a hand's reach”)",
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"word": "urchair chloiche"
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"word": "a tiro de piedra"
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"sense": "short distance",
"word": "ergyd carreg"
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"word": "à deux pas"
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"sense": "short distance",
"word": "à un jet de pierre"
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"sense": "short distance",
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "short distance",
"word": "a tiro de piedra"
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"word": "stone's throw"
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