"find flies in the ointment" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [Anglais]

Forms: to find flies in the ointment [infinitive], finds flies in the ointment [present, third-person, singular], found flies in the ointment [preterite], found flies in the ointment [participle, past], finding flies in the ointment [participle, present]
  1. Tomber sur un os.
    Sense id: fr-find_flies_in_the_ointment-en-verb-O0pU1F8Q
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

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