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word.id | word.ts | word.word | word.letter | word.category | word.title_id | word.description_id | word.sentence_id |
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21 | 2022-06-16 12:25:20 | a balancing act | A | a ... a bit daunting | {
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"content.def": "a situation in which you try to satisfy two or more opposing groups or sets of ideals",
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"sentence.sentence": "It's a balancing act and it's easy to be distracted."
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"sentence.ts": "2022-09-15 00:00:03",
"sentence.sentence": "There has to be a balancing act in keeping clubs financially healthy."
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"sentence.ts": "2022-09-15 00:00:03",
"sentence.sentence": "Poaching is more of a balancing act."
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"63": {
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"sentence.ts": "2022-09-15 00:00:03",
"sentence.sentence": "It's a balancing act between good design and helping the aged."
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"64": {
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"sentence.ts": "2022-09-15 00:00:03",
"sentence.sentence": "The entire week has been a balancing act in terms of preparation and selection."
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"65": {
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"sentence.ts": "2022-09-15 00:00:03",
"sentence.sentence": "Harvesting the kernels sustainably is a balancing act."
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"66": {
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"sentence.ts": "2022-09-15 00:00:03",
"sentence.sentence": "However, that is far too delicate a balancing act."
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"sentence.sentence": "The creation of a season's book schedule is, however, something of a balancing act."
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"sentence.ts": "2022-09-15 00:00:03",
"sentence.sentence": "There is no typical day, and this does make childcare a balancing act."
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"sentence.ts": "2022-09-15 00:00:03",
"sentence.sentence": "In the early days, the job was a balancing act."
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} |
22 | 2022-06-16 12:25:20 | a ball and chain | A | a ... a bit daunting | {
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"content.ts": "2022-09-15 00:00:23",
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"content.def": "someone or something that limits your freedom to do what you want",
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"sentence.sentence": "An exiled person can carry the past like a ball and chain."
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"sentence.sentence": "That put a ball and chain around judges."
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"72": {
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"sentence.ts": "2022-09-15 00:00:23",
"sentence.sentence": "It won't work to turn his mobile into a ball and chain."
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"sentence.ts": "2022-09-15 00:00:23",
"sentence.sentence": "I pursued my career, bought him a moped, tried not to act like a ball and chain."
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"sentence.sentence": "There wasn't a ball and chain on the group to keep chasing the next single and put all our energies into that."
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"sentence.sentence": "The deluded director might as well have shackled a ball and chain to his ankle and gone diving for eels."
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"sentence.ts": "2022-09-15 00:00:23",
"sentence.sentence": "For a disciplined adult it can be a nuisance, a ball and chain, but not a source of misery."
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"sentence.sentence": "He was court martialed and sentenced to 6 months of hard labor with a ball and chain and fined $10 plus an additional fine to cover the cost of his recapture."
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} |
23 | 2022-06-16 12:25:20 | a ballpark figure | A | a ... a bit daunting | {
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"title.title": "a ballpark figure",
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"content.ts": "2022-09-15 00:00:33",
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"content.def": "an approximate figure or quantity But what are we talking about here – a few thousand, millions, two bucks? Give me a ballpark figure.",
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}
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"sentence.sentence": "I press him for a ballpark figure, and he says guardedly that it is a standard classical record deal."
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"sentence.ts": "2022-09-15 00:00:33",
"sentence.sentence": "That's a ballpark figure, of course - or, as we should probably say these days, an out-of-town stadium figure."
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"sentence.ts": "2022-09-15 00:00:33",
"sentence.sentence": "It might be worth taking a friendly builder along on the second viewing to get a ballpark figure on costs."
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"sentence.ts": "2022-09-15 00:00:33",
"sentence.sentence": "They won't be able to give you even a ballpark figure without drawings, measurements and thoughts on materials."
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"sentence.ts": "2022-09-15 00:00:33",
"sentence.sentence": "They are working on a ballpark figure of 1 billion, but even this may not be enough."
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24 | 2022-06-16 12:25:20 | a baptism of fire | A | a ... a bit daunting | {
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"title.ts": "2022-11-23 03:16:30",
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"sentence.sentence": "The new manager faces a baptism of fire."
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"sentence.sentence": "It all began 30 years ago, in a baptism of fire (literally)."
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"85": {
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"sentence.sentence": "It was a bit of a baptism of fire, but a bonding experience."
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"86": {
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"sentence.ts": "2022-09-15 00:00:54",
"sentence.sentence": "The first 12 months, he said, ' felt like a baptism of fire'."
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"87": {
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"sentence.sentence": "She has had something of a baptism of fire."
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"88": {
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"sentence.sentence": "The production was a baptism of fire for its rookie director."
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"sentence.sentence": "It promises to be a baptism of fire."
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"sentence.sentence": "It was a baptism of fire, but after that night, it was smooth sailing."
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"sentence.ts": "2022-09-15 00:00:54",
"sentence.sentence": "A baptism of fire for the future chancellor."
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"sentence.ts": "2022-09-15 00:00:54",
"sentence.sentence": "He was fine, although it was a baptism of fire for him."
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25 | 2022-06-16 12:25:20 | a barrel of laughs | A | a ... a bit daunting | {
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"content.def": "If an experience is a barrel of laughs, it is very enjoyable. If someone is a barrel of laughs, they are fun to be with. [mainly British, informal] The suppers are always a barrel of laughs.",
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"sentence.sentence": "Yet this gloomy album doesn't make the outsider life seem a barrel of laughs."
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"94": {
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"sentence.ts": "2022-09-15 00:01:09",
"sentence.sentence": "It didn't, to be honest, sound like a barrel of laughs."
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"sentence.ts": "2022-09-15 00:01:09",
"sentence.sentence": "Not exactly a barrel of laughs, but compelling and beautifully crafted."
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"sentence.ts": "2022-09-15 00:01:09",
"sentence.sentence": "It doesn't exactly look like a barrel of laughs to me."
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"sentence.ts": "2022-09-15 00:01:09",
"sentence.sentence": "Rock in 1971 wasn't a barrel of laughs for the audience either."
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"98": {
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"sentence.ts": "2022-09-15 00:01:09",
"sentence.sentence": "But parenthood hasn't all been a barrel of laughs."
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"99": {
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"sentence.ts": "2022-09-15 00:01:09",
"sentence.sentence": "It's not exactly a barrel of laughs."
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"sentence.ts": "2022-09-15 00:01:09",
"sentence.sentence": "If you want a barrel of laughs, look elsewhere."
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"101": {
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"sentence.ts": "2022-09-15 00:01:09",
"sentence.sentence": "They don't have a reputation for being a barrel of laughs."
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"sentence.ts": "2022-09-15 00:01:09",
"sentence.sentence": "Let's just says, it wasn't a barrel of laughs."
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} |
26 | 2022-06-16 12:25:20 | à bas | A | a ... a bit daunting | {
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"content.ts": "2022-09-15 00:01:19",
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"title.title": "à bas in American English",
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"description.description": "exclamation down with!..."
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"description.ts": "2022-09-15 00:01:19",
"description.description": "down with an expression of disapproval→ see also vive..."
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"description.description": "down with..."
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} |
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27 | 2022-06-16 12:25:20 | a basket case | A | a ... a bit daunting | {
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"content.def": "a country or organization whose economy or finances are in a very bad state The popular image about Latin America a few years ago was that it was a basket case.",
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28 | 2022-06-16 12:25:20 | A battery | A | a ... a bit daunting | {
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"title.title": "A battery in American English",
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"content.ts": "2022-09-15 00:01:44",
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"content.def": "the power source for the filaments of electron tubes in battery-operated equipment",
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"content.ts": "2022-09-15 00:01:44",
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"content.def": "an electric battery for heating the filament or cathode heater of an electron tube Compare B battery, C battery iaw.cmd.push(function() { iaw.display('ad_contentslot_1'); });",
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"description.ts": "2022-09-15 00:01:44",
"description.description": "the power source for the filaments of electron tubes in battery-operated equipment..."
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"description.ts": "2022-09-15 00:01:44",
"description.description": "noun Electronics an electric battery for heating the filament or cathode heater of an electron tube Compare B battery, C battery..."
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} |
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29 | 2022-06-16 12:25:20 | a battle of wills | A | a ... a bit daunting | {
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"content.def": "an argument or conflict in which the people involved are refusing to accept each other's demands",
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}
}
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"sentence.sentence": "It became a test of stamina, a battle of wills."
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"sentence.sentence": "It escalated into a battle of wills."
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"sentence.sentence": "It wasn't so much a battle of wills as of won'ts."
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"106": {
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"sentence.sentence": "It was always a battle of wills with her."
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"sentence.sentence": "But then it's clearly a battle of wills."
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"108": {
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"sentence.sentence": "There are clashes and there is a battle of wills."
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"sentence.sentence": "In a battle of wills, cats prevail."
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"110": {
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"sentence.sentence": "I suspect it was a battle of wills and egos."
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"sentence.sentence": "You're on fire and look set to triumph in a battle of wills."
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"sentence.ts": "2022-09-15 00:01:57",
"sentence.sentence": "It was a battle of wills, of backgrounds and of character."
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30 | 2022-06-16 12:25:20 | a battle of wits | A | a ... a bit daunting | {
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"sentence.sentence": "But giving evidence is arduous because you're in a battle of wits."
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"sentence.sentence": "From the outset, it was obvious that it was a battle of wits."
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"sentence.sentence": "A battle of wits ensues in an exceptionally handsome production."
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"sentence.sentence": "In a battle of wits, humans are not the only players in the game."
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"sentence.sentence": "Twenty20 is more of a battle of wits than 50-over cricket."
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"118": {
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"sentence.sentence": "War and games are both strategic contests involving a battle of wits over how best to use the resources available against an active, thinking adversary."
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"sentence.sentence": "It's a battle of wits and the key is to try to pre-empt what the batsman is going to do."
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"sentence.sentence": "And we were not engaged in a battle of wits over the chess board; we were playing rock-paper-scissors."
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"sentence.sentence": "She engages the gang's leader in a battle of wits, trading the fascinating story of her life for the release of the prisoners."
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"sentence.sentence": "So house-hunting is a battle of wits, and the way you dress is an important ingredient in securing your chosen property."
}
} |
31 | 2022-06-16 12:25:20 | a beam in one's eye | A | a ... a bit daunting | {
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}
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32 | 2022-06-16 12:25:20 | a bean counter | A | a ... a bit daunting | {
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