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"etymology_text": "From on the lam.",
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"ref": "1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 168:",
"text": "They didn't take it on the lam weirdly inside a cloud the way Clevinger had done.",
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