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"text": "The festival had balloons, flowers, fireworks, performers, and the whole shebang.",
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"ref": "1924, Harold Hart Crane, letter",
"text": "I am growing more and more sick of factions, gossip, jealousies, recriminations, excoriations and the whole literary shee-bang."
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"text": "2002, Treasure Planet, directed by Ron Clements and John Musker\nDoctor, I'd love to chat. Tea, cake, the whole shebang. But I've got a ship to launch and you've got your outfit to buff up."
},
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"text": "2004, Leo Furey, The Long Run, page 331,\n“Food here's pretty good. They don't serve bog juice. Real tea and real coffee. Ice cream, pop, chips. The whole shebang. Every day's a wingding, brother.”"
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"text": "2011, Dave Thompson, 1000 Songs that Rock Your World, page 209,\nOf course, they would win the whole shebang in 1974, when “Waterloo” [won] (sung in English by Swedes about a Frenchman in Belgium— how much more international can one song get?), but the bitter taste of past failures is not something one forgets..."
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"text": "2011, Diane Phillips, Slow Cooker: The Best Cookbook Ever with More Than 400 Easy-to-Make Recipes, page 305,\nThe whole shebang cooks in the slow cooker, which will keep it warm until you are ready to serve it."
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "the entire thing",
"word": "tot plegat"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "the entire thing",
"word": "de hele rataplan"
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"code": "nl",
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"code": "nl",
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"word": "de hele bende"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the entire thing",
"word": "koko helahoito"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the entire thing",
"word": "koko repertuaari"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the entire thing",
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"sense": "the entire thing",
"word": "koko hoito"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the entire thing",
"word": "ihan kaikki"
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"sense": "the entire thing",
"word": "tout le bataclan"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "the entire thing",
"word": "hóbelevanc"
},
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "the entire thing",
"word": "miskulancia"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "the entire thing",
"word": "minden, ami kell"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "the entire thing",
"word": "ami csak kell"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vsego-to delov",
"sense": "the entire thing",
"word": "всего-то делов"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "vot i vsjó delo",
"sense": "the entire thing",
"word": "вот и всё дело"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "vsja štuka",
"sense": "the entire thing",
"word": "вся штука"
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"sense": "the entire thing",
"word": "всё и вся"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "the entire thing",
"word": "rubbet"
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"sense": "the entire thing",
"word": "allt"
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},
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"text": "2002, Treasure Planet, directed by Ron Clements and John Musker\nDoctor, I'd love to chat. Tea, cake, the whole shebang. But I've got a ship to launch and you've got your outfit to buff up."
},
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"text": "2004, Leo Furey, The Long Run, page 331,\n“Food here's pretty good. They don't serve bog juice. Real tea and real coffee. Ice cream, pop, chips. The whole shebang. Every day's a wingding, brother.”"
},
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"text": "2011, Dave Thompson, 1000 Songs that Rock Your World, page 209,\nOf course, they would win the whole shebang in 1974, when “Waterloo” [won] (sung in English by Swedes about a Frenchman in Belgium— how much more international can one song get?), but the bitter taste of past failures is not something one forgets..."
},
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"text": "2011, Diane Phillips, Slow Cooker: The Best Cookbook Ever with More Than 400 Easy-to-Make Recipes, page 305,\nThe whole shebang cooks in the slow cooker, which will keep it warm until you are ready to serve it."
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "the entire thing",
"word": "tot plegat"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "the entire thing",
"word": "de hele rataplan"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "the entire thing",
"word": "de hele mikmak"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "the entire thing",
"word": "de hele reutemeteut"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "the entire thing",
"tags": [
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"word": "de hele bende"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the entire thing",
"word": "koko helahoito"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the entire thing",
"word": "koko repertuaari"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the entire thing",
"word": "koko roska"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the entire thing",
"word": "koko hoito"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the entire thing",
"word": "ihan kaikki"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "the entire thing",
"word": "tout le bataclan"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "the entire thing",
"word": "hóbelevanc"
},
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "the entire thing",
"word": "miskulancia"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "the entire thing",
"word": "minden, ami kell"
},
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "the entire thing",
"word": "ami csak kell"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vsego-to delov",
"sense": "the entire thing",
"word": "всего-то делов"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vot i vsjó delo",
"sense": "the entire thing",
"word": "вот и всё дело"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vsja štuka",
"sense": "the entire thing",
"word": "вся штука"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vsjó i vsja",
"sense": "the entire thing",
"word": "всё и вся"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "the entire thing",
"word": "rubbet"
},
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "the entire thing",
"word": "allt"
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"word": "whole shebang"
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