elmerot,
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Here is a possibility for you to look the phrase up in three of his book in English, to get a better feeling for the usage. Unfortunately, there are no parallel translations of Pratchett's books into neither French, Italian or Spanish here.
https://www.korpus.cz/kontext/view?viewmode=kwic&pagesize=40&attrs=word&attr_vmode=visible-kwic&base_viewattr=word&refs=%3Ddoc.id&q=~xyamgu0sCo2W&cutoff=0
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