See Murks in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"english": "Is Basic Income really a botch job?",
"ref": "2024 January 3, Florian Diekmann, “Ist das Bürgergeld wirklich Murks?”, in Der Spiegel, →ISSN:",
"text": "Ist das Bürgergeld wirklich Murks? [title]",
"translation": "Is Basic Income really a botch job?",
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"(colloquial, derogatory) botch, bodge (the result of badly-done work, often to the point of being completely dysfunctional)"
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41
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"english": "I think what you've been told is nonsense.",
"text": "Ich glaube, da hat man dir Murks erzählt.",
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100,
108
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"english": "I can't get through here in my new fleece jacket\nWhere's the handle on this thing? Man, this is all bullshit",
"ref": "2022, Deichkind, “In der Natur”, in Neues vom Dauerzustand:",
"text": "Mit meiner neuen Fleecejacke komm ich hier nicht durch\nWo ist denn hier der Griff? Mann, das ist doch alles Murks",
"translation": "I can't get through here in my new fleece jacket\nWhere's the handle on this thing? Man, this is all bullshit",
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"text": "Ich glaube, da hat man dir Murks erzählt.",
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108,
113
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100,
108
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"ref": "2022, Deichkind, “In der Natur”, in Neues vom Dauerzustand:",
"text": "Mit meiner neuen Fleecejacke komm ich hier nicht durch\nWo ist denn hier der Griff? Mann, das ist doch alles Murks",
"translation": "I can't get through here in my new fleece jacket\nWhere's the handle on this thing? Man, this is all bullshit",
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