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"text": "So you ride yourselves over the fields\nAnd you make all your animal deals\nAnd your wise men don't know how it feels\nTo be thick as a brick.",
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"word": "malsaĝa kiel ŝtipo"
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"word": "tyhmä kuin saapas"
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"english": "dumb to the point of eating hay",
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"word": "bête à manger du foin"
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"word": "dumm wie Bohnenstroh"
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"note": "as stupid as a shoe",
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"word": "טיפש כמו נעל"
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"word": "nautheimskur"
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"word": "głupy ako pjeńk"
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"word": "dum som et brød"
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"word": "burro como uma porta"
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"word": "malsaĝa kiel ŝtipo"
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"word": "con comme un manche"
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"note": "as dumb as bread",
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"note": "as stupid as a shoe",
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"word": "טיפש כמו נעל"
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"word": "głupy ako snop"
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"word": "愚不可及"
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"note": "as stupid as night",
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"word": "prost ca noaptea"
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"word": "туп как сиби́рский ва́ленок"
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