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Tekoälykääntäjä

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Substantiivit

  1. A pastime of throwing flat stones across water so as to make them bounce off the surface.
  2. squandering of resources, especially money; used in expressions like "to make ducks and drakes of", "to play (at) ducks and drakes with".

Esimerkit

  • A kind of sport or play with an oister shell or stone throwne into the water, and making circles yer it sinke, etc. It is called a ducke and a drake, and a halfe-penie cake.<ref>Regarding this last line, “a ducke and a drake, and a halfe-penie cake”, compare the nursery rhyme:
  • This royal Caesar doth regard no cash; Has thrown away as much in ducks and drakes As would have bought some 50,000 capons.

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