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Swedish
Etymology
hjärna (“brain”) + spöke (“ghost”)
Noun
hjärnspöke n
- an (often threatening) unreasonable belief based solely on one's thoughts and feelings, a figment of the imagination, a bogeyman, a fantasy
Det utländska hotet var ett hjärnspöke- The foreign threat was a figment of their imagination
Subversiva grupper som arbetar i lönndom och andra hjärnspöken- Subversive groups working in secret and other bogeymen
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