"hold a mirror up to" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "holds a mirror up to",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "holding a mirror up to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "held a mirror up to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "held a mirror up to",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hold<,,held> a mirror up to"
      },
      "expansion": "hold a mirror up to (third-person singular simple present holds a mirror up to, present participle holding a mirror up to, simple past and past participle held a mirror up to)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "hold a mirror to"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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        },
        {
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          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "c. 1599-1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 3, scene 2",
          "text": "To hold as ’twere the mirror up to nature."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Rev. David K. Fly, My Life Under the Big Top: Reflections of a Comic, Clown and Priest:",
          "text": "There are so many times when someone needs to hold a mirror up to the face of the Church...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Marcel Danesi, Empirical Research on Semiotics and Visual Rhetoric, page 55:",
          "text": "Just as the Sphinx presented a paradigm of self-reference to hold a mirror up to Oedipus, the myth of Oedipus also holds a mirror up to us as witnesses.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Lurana Donnels O'Malley, The Dramatic Works of Catherine the Great: Theatre and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Russia:",
          "text": "Catherine used comedy to hold a mirror up to her people, to expose and therefore correct the problems of her society.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of hold a mirror to"
      ],
      "id": "en-hold_a_mirror_up_to-en-verb-lF330ctU",
      "links": [
        [
          "hold a mirror to",
          "hold a mirror to#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hold a mirror up to"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "holds a mirror up to",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "holding a mirror up to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "held a mirror up to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "held a mirror up to",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hold<,,held> a mirror up to"
      },
      "expansion": "hold a mirror up to (third-person singular simple present holds a mirror up to, present participle holding a mirror up to, simple past and past participle held a mirror up to)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "hold a mirror to"
        }
      ],
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "c. 1599-1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 3, scene 2",
          "text": "To hold as ’twere the mirror up to nature."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Rev. David K. Fly, My Life Under the Big Top: Reflections of a Comic, Clown and Priest:",
          "text": "There are so many times when someone needs to hold a mirror up to the face of the Church...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Marcel Danesi, Empirical Research on Semiotics and Visual Rhetoric, page 55:",
          "text": "Just as the Sphinx presented a paradigm of self-reference to hold a mirror up to Oedipus, the myth of Oedipus also holds a mirror up to us as witnesses.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Lurana Donnels O'Malley, The Dramatic Works of Catherine the Great: Theatre and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Russia:",
          "text": "Catherine used comedy to hold a mirror up to her people, to expose and therefore correct the problems of her society.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of hold a mirror to"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
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          "hold a mirror to#English"
        ]
      ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hold a mirror up to"
}