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"ref": "2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 36",
"text": "This magnificent picture really stopped me in my tracks when I stumbled across it. I was drawn inexorably and immediately into the compelling detail discernible on this top-quality image.",
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"To prevent someone from continuing along a path or way, literal or figurative, he has begun going along."
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"(idiomatic) To prevent someone from continuing along a path or way, literal or figurative, he has begun going along."
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "pysäyttää niille sijoilleen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
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"word": "couper dans son élan"
},
{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "Translations",
"word": "interrompre"
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"word": "pysäyttää niille sijoilleen"
},
{
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "couper dans son élan"
},
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"sense": "Translations",
"word": "interrompre"
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"word": "zatrzymać"
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"word": "stop someone in their tracks"
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