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"ref": "1960 August, R. K. Evans, “Railway Modernisation in Spain”, in Trains Illustrated, page 494",
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"alt": "あしもとに",
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"word": "足元に"
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"text": "It would be easier to do a big project like that someday when we don't have a bunch of newcomers underfoot."
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"ref": "1978, Tom Reamy, Blind Voices",
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"ref": "1999, Ernest Shackleton, South: The Endurance Expedition to Antarctica, page 283",
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"text": "A builder was employed to underfoot a tenement, but the work having been improperly executed, damage was caused to adjoining houses.",
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"ref": "1870, Cases Decided in the Court of Session, Teind Court, Etc.",
"text": "The two courses which were open to them were, — on the one hand, to underfoot the building ; and, on the other, to take it down, with the view of its being re-erected on the same site, or elsewhere ; if they should have the means of doing so.",
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"ref": "1904, Sir John Rankine, The Scots Revised Reports, page 774",
"text": "The result was to bring out the fact, which is now established beyond all doubt by the proof, that any attempt to underfoot the steeple would have been an entire mistake.",
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"ref": "1932, Frank Hatch Streightoff, Advanced Accounting, page 140",
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"ref": "1980, The CPA Journal - Volume 50",
"text": "Stay away from the client or taxpayer who conceals, pads, overstates or understates, alters, duplicates, overfoots or underfoots, diverts, manipulates, omits, falsifies and flagrantly disregards the IRS regulations.",
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"ref": "1983, Accounting and information systems: instructor's manual, page 258",
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"ref": "1980, The CPA Journal - Volume 50",
"text": "Stay away from the client or taxpayer who conceals, pads, overstates or understates, alters, duplicates, overfoots or underfoots, diverts, manipulates, omits, falsifies and flagrantly disregards the IRS regulations.",
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