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"ref": "2001, Mickey Spillane, The Mike Hammer Collection, volume 1",
"text": "I fell for a sucker trap and got taken but good. My own fault ... should have known better.",
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},
{
"ref": "2011, Ken Follett, On Wings of Eagles",
"text": "It had been a sucker trap and they had fallen right into it. Why, they had walked in here of their own free will, to keep an appointment made by the US Embassy.",
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},
{
"ref": "2013, Imre Kertész, Fiasco",
"text": "“Such a cheap sucker trap... a cheap sucker trap... and I fell for it!” he was hissing, glaring at Koves with a look of hatred from behind misted-up spectacles.",
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"A scam; a fraudulent deal offered to the unwary."
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"(informal) A scam; a fraudulent deal offered to the unwary."
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"word": "sucker's trap"
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"word": "fall for..."
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"english": "verb; fall for...",
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"word": "mennä halpaan"
},
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"english": "verb; fall for...",
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"word": "mennä lankaan"
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"word": "mennä retkuun"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "attrape-nigaud"
},
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
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"word": "piège à cons"
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"ref": "2001, Mickey Spillane, The Mike Hammer Collection, volume 1",
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"ref": "2013, Imre Kertész, Fiasco",
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"word": "mennä lankaan"
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"word": "mennä retkuun"
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"word": "attrape-nigaud"
},
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"lang": "French",
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"word": "piège à cons"
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