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Examples
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I am neethur Joe, nor a plumer…butt go ahead and call me anything.
‘Oh no I forgot my lines!’ - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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Turns out Joe the Plumber is not even a liscenced plumer, and is not actually buying any plumbing business.
Staying Cool and Irritating Your Rivals - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Mon mari would just have to discover that himself, I reasoned, as I left him to plumer the bird and headed to the backyard to hang out the laundry.
Words in a French Life Kristin Espinasse 2007
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The only hint I found by googling and Yandexing was that the same Russian word was used to translate passe-dix in Chapter 32, "Un diner de procureur," of Dumas's Les Trois mousquetaires: "plumer quelque peu les jeunes clercs en leur apprenant la bassette, le passe-dix et le lansquenet dans leurs plus fines pratiques"—as this translation has it, "to pluck the clerks a little by teaching them bassette, passedix, and lansquenet."
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My Uncle/Landlord has just rang me to let me know that the plumer has fixed the pipe for now but we still have to dig up the front yard and replace the rest of the piping, lotsa fun!!
anasthesia Diary Entry anasthesia 2002
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Il faut le plumer vif: oui, oui, plumons, plumons!
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At each end of the colony a plumer sat hidden in his blind.
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You have not the secret/plumer la poule sans la faire crier/, witness this morning's work.
Peveril of the Peak Walter Scott 1801
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But really US, who gives a damn about "joe the plumer".
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David Roberts: Why We Overestimate the Costs of Tackling Climate Change 2009
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