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"ref": "2016 -, Laurie Pegrum, Looking at Clouds, page 218",
"text": "Jenny's pulse took a flutter at the word 'newspaper' now knowing that she was guilty.",
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"ref": "2017, Richard Mason -, The Fever Tree",
"text": "“Now, that's a good question, and I'm glad to answer it,” Potter said. “The fact is that it occurred to me there might be a pigeon somewhere round here that was thinking of taking a flutter.",
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"ref": "2010, Steven Manners, Valley of Fire",
"text": "Hughes takes a flutter on the nearest six, nickel bets on thirty-one to thirty-six.",
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"ref": "2012, David Stevenson, FT Guide to Exchange Traded Funds and Index Funds",
"text": "Although they aspired, like all natural-born gamblers, to taking a flutter and beating that system (they all loved the idea of tips, of course), they were sufficiently cynical to know it's a mug's game and that it was largely bound to fail.",
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"ref": "2018, Kasey Michaels, The Promise",
"text": "I was ridin' the horses then, you understand, and maybe known to take a flutter or two on the bangtails while I was about it.",
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"(UK, Canada) To place a small bet."
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"ref": "2012, Peter F. Trent, Merger Delusion",
"text": "In the next general election in 2007 the Liberals hung on to only a couple of these ridings: most of their voters took a flutter with the ADQ.",
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"ref": "2019 August 28, David Gordon Duke, “Classical music: Vancouver Recital Society celebrates 40 years going strong”, in Vancouver Sun",
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"To support a risky option."
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},
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"ref": "2012, David Stevenson, FT Guide to Exchange Traded Funds and Index Funds",
"text": "Although they aspired, like all natural-born gamblers, to taking a flutter and beating that system (they all loved the idea of tips, of course), they were sufficiently cynical to know it's a mug's game and that it was largely bound to fail.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2018, Kasey Michaels, The Promise",
"text": "I was ridin' the horses then, you understand, and maybe known to take a flutter or two on the bangtails while I was about it.",
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"ref": "2019 August 28, David Gordon Duke, “Classical music: Vancouver Recital Society celebrates 40 years going strong”, in Vancouver Sun",
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