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Runners in her hose?
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Is Gorka’s remark “Is what’s good for the Heinz not good for the Gorka?” so preposterous enough to be deemed ‘never before rendered in English’?
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What does "Thundering typhoons" mean?
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Trustable or trustworthy?
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