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"text": "“About a week ago we were sitting outside a restaurant having an intense debate about the children, and I held Nigella [Lawson]'s neck repeatedly while attempting to emphasise my point,” he said. “There was no grip, it was a playful tiff. The pictures are horrific but give a far more drastic and violent impression of what took place.[…]”",
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"text": "“Good wife,” said Skriegh, gathering up his mouth, and sipping his tiff of brandy punch with great solemnity […]",
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"ref": "2000 September 30, Guy Browning, “How to... have a tiff”, in The Guardian:",
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