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"etymology_text": "By analogy with a player making a sacrifice for the benefit of the sports team.",
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"To accept some chore, hardship or punishment for the sake of one's friends or colleagues."
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"(idiomatic, informal) To accept some chore, hardship or punishment for the sake of one's friends or colleagues."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "there's no I in team"
},
{
"word": "bell the cat"
},
{
"word": "fall on a grenade"
},
{
"word": "step into the breach"
},
{
"word": "take the fall"
}
],
"tags": [
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "doing an unwelcome task instead of one's friends or colleagues",
"word": "tage en for holdet"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "doing an unwelcome task instead of one's friends or colleagues",
"word": "uhrautua"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "doing an unwelcome task instead of one's friends or colleagues",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "poświęcać się dla drużyny"
},
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"sense": "doing an unwelcome task instead of one's friends or colleagues",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "poświęcić się dla drużyny"
},
{
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "brosátʹsja na ambrazúru",
"sense": "doing an unwelcome task instead of one's friends or colleagues",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "броса́ться на амбразу́ру"
},
{
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "brósitʹsja na ambrazúru",
"sense": "doing an unwelcome task instead of one's friends or colleagues",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "бро́ситься на амбразу́ру"
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"word": "fall on a grenade"
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"word": "take the fall"
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"To accept some chore, hardship or punishment for the sake of one's friends or colleagues."
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"(idiomatic, informal) To accept some chore, hardship or punishment for the sake of one's friends or colleagues."
],
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "doing an unwelcome task instead of one's friends or colleagues",
"word": "tage en for holdet"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "doing an unwelcome task instead of one's friends or colleagues",
"word": "uhrautua"
},
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "doing an unwelcome task instead of one's friends or colleagues",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "poświęcać się dla drużyny"
},
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"sense": "doing an unwelcome task instead of one's friends or colleagues",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "poświęcać się dla drużyny"
},
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"sense": "doing an unwelcome task instead of one's friends or colleagues",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "poświęcić się dla drużyny"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "brosátʹsja na ambrazúru",
"sense": "doing an unwelcome task instead of one's friends or colleagues",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "броса́ться на амбразу́ру"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "brósitʹsja na ambrazúru",
"sense": "doing an unwelcome task instead of one's friends or colleagues",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "бро́ситься на амбразу́ру"
}
],
"word": "take one for the team"
}
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