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"ref": "1920, Ring Lardner, The Big Town",
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"text": "The readers probably expecting me to go on about how Johnny was real nostalgic about some kind of material security. . . . Well, the readers got the wrong number."
},
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"ref": "2005 February 20, Richard Taruskin, “Music: Restoring Comrade Roslavets”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-06-01",
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"sense": "A call with a mistake in the number dialled",
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"sense": "A call with a mistake in the number dialled",
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"sense": "A call with a mistake in the number dialled",
"word": "väärä numero"
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"sense": "A call with a mistake in the number dialled",
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"sense": "A call with a mistake in the number dialled",
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"masculine"
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"word": "ग़लत नंबर"
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"sense": "A call with a mistake in the number dialled",
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"masculine"
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"word": "непра́вильный но́мер"
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"roman": "ne tot nómer",
"sense": "A call with a mistake in the number dialled",
"word": "не тот но́мер"
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"sense": "A call with a mistake in the number dialled",
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"masculine"
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"word": "número equivocado"
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"roman": "ġalat nambar",
"sense": "A call with a mistake in the number dialled",
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"masculine"
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"text": "Codd said . . . when he had her fixed and tested her a few times he would take me up for a ride.\n\"You got the wrong number,\" I says. \"I don't feel flighty.\"",
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{
"ref": "1984, David Homel (translator), Jacques Renaud (author), Broke City (original French edition, Le cassé, 1964), p. 37 (Google preview)",
"text": "The readers probably expecting me to go on about how Johnny was real nostalgic about some kind of material security. . . . Well, the readers got the wrong number."
},
{
"ref": "2005 February 20, Richard Taruskin, “Music: Restoring Comrade Roslavets”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-06-01",
"text": "His musical system, like the political system he served, would rescue the present moment from crisis and place it at last in productive harmony with history's demands. Boy, did he have the wrong number.",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "رَقْم غَيْر صَحِيح"
},
{
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],
"word": "رَقْم خَاطِئ"
},
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"sense": "A call with a mistake in the number dialled",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "forkert nummer"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "A call with a mistake in the number dialled",
"word": "väärä numero"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "A call with a mistake in the number dialled",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "faux numéro"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "A call with a mistake in the number dialled",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "falsche Nummer"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "ġalat nambar",
"sense": "A call with a mistake in the number dialled",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ग़लत नंबर"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "machigai denwa",
"sense": "A call with a mistake in the number dialled",
"word": "間違い電話"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "A call with a mistake in the number dialled",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pomyłka"
},
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"sense": "A call with a mistake in the number dialled",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "engano"
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"roman": "neprávilʹnyj nómer",
"sense": "A call with a mistake in the number dialled",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "непра́вильный но́мер"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ošíbočnyj nómer",
"sense": "A call with a mistake in the number dialled",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "оши́бочный но́мер"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ne tot nómer",
"sense": "A call with a mistake in the number dialled",
"word": "не тот но́мер"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "A call with a mistake in the number dialled",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "número equivocado"
},
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"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "ġalat nambar",
"sense": "A call with a mistake in the number dialled",
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"word": "غلط نمبر"
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