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},
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28
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"english": "There's plenty of corruption in the construction industry.",
"text": "Im Baugewerbe wird viel Schmu gemacht.",
"translation": "There's plenty of corruption in the construction industry.",
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},
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149
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178
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144
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170,
191
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],
"english": "\"Then maybe someone stamped it without official approval. After receiving an appropriate payment, naturally.\"\n\"We don't do that kind of trickery.\"\n\"Someone must be doing that kind of trickery, though, otherwise there wouldn't be a copy.\"",
"ref": "2021, Elke Pistor, Luftkurmord, Emons Verlag, →ISBN:",
"text": "»Dann hat vielleicht einer ohne offizielle Zustimmung den Stempel draufgesetzt. Nach entsprechender Zahlung, versteht sich.«\n»Wir machen keinen Schmu.«\n»Irgendwer muss aber Schmu gemacht haben, sonst gäbe es die Kopie ja nicht.«",
"translation": "\"Then maybe someone stamped it without official approval. After receiving an appropriate payment, naturally.\"\n\"We don't do that kind of trickery.\"\n\"Someone must be doing that kind of trickery, though, otherwise there wouldn't be a copy.\"",
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"(colloquial) trick, cheat, fraud, corruption (in a clement tone, or else implying something small in scale)"
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"_dis": "25 75",
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"name": "German entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
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"parents": [],
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},
{
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"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
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34,
39
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74,
82
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],
"english": "You're always just talking about empathy. You can just drop the astrology nonsense.",
"ref": "2004 May 8, Guide Stepken, “Re: Wetterastrologie”, in de.sci.theologie (Usenet):",
"text": "Du meinst immer nur Empathie. Den Schmu mit Astrologie kannst Du getrost weglassen.",
"translation": "You're always just talking about empathy. You can just drop the astrology nonsense.",
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}
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"(colloquial) trick, cheat, fraud, corruption (in a clement tone, or else implying something small in scale)",
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"tags": [
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"rhymes": "-uː"
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"word": "Schmu"
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24,
29
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18,
28
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"text": "Im Baugewerbe wird viel Schmu gemacht.",
"translation": "There's plenty of corruption in the construction industry.",
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},
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144,
149
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173,
178
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123,
144
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170,
191
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"english": "\"Then maybe someone stamped it without official approval. After receiving an appropriate payment, naturally.\"\n\"We don't do that kind of trickery.\"\n\"Someone must be doing that kind of trickery, though, otherwise there wouldn't be a copy.\"",
"ref": "2021, Elke Pistor, Luftkurmord, Emons Verlag, →ISBN:",
"text": "»Dann hat vielleicht einer ohne offizielle Zustimmung den Stempel draufgesetzt. Nach entsprechender Zahlung, versteht sich.«\n»Wir machen keinen Schmu.«\n»Irgendwer muss aber Schmu gemacht haben, sonst gäbe es die Kopie ja nicht.«",
"translation": "\"Then maybe someone stamped it without official approval. After receiving an appropriate payment, naturally.\"\n\"We don't do that kind of trickery.\"\n\"Someone must be doing that kind of trickery, though, otherwise there wouldn't be a copy.\"",
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],
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],
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34,
39
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74,
82
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],
"english": "You're always just talking about empathy. You can just drop the astrology nonsense.",
"ref": "2004 May 8, Guide Stepken, “Re: Wetterastrologie”, in de.sci.theologie (Usenet):",
"text": "Du meinst immer nur Empathie. Den Schmu mit Astrologie kannst Du getrost weglassen.",
"translation": "You're always just talking about empathy. You can just drop the astrology nonsense.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"trick, cheat, fraud, corruption (in a clement tone, or else implying something small in scale)",
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}
],
"word": "Schmu"
}
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