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few cards shy of a full deck
vs
manic-depressive
few cards shy of a full deck
adj
mentally deranged; demented; insane.
manic-depressive
adj
Exhibiting manic depression.
noun
A person with manic depression.
How often have the words
few cards shy of a full deck
and
manic-depressive
occurred in a corpus of books?
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