"beg off" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "beg + off",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "begs off",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "begging off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "begged off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "begged off",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "beg off (third-person singular simple present begs off, present participle begging off, simple past and past participle begged off)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"off\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I wonder if I can beg off going to the meeting that day, since it will take me an extra two hours out of my way.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1985 December 7, Christine Guilfoy, Bailus Walker, “Quarantine Is No Way To Fight AIDS”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 21, page 8:",
          "text": "That's an issue that I have not discussed with the legal people. I don't know what authority we have to prevent insurance companies from setting criteria for those people that they would insure. Whether that rests with us or with the Commissioner of Insurance, I don't know. I'm going to have to beg off that question.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To obtain somebody's permission to skip or cancel an event that one has previously arranged with them."
      ],
      "id": "en-beg_off-en-verb-P4qvaw7K",
      "links": [
        [
          "skip",
          "skip"
        ],
        [
          "cancel",
          "cancel"
        ],
        [
          "event",
          "event"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To obtain somebody's permission to skip or cancel an event that one has previously arranged with them."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "cry off"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-beg off.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/30/En-au-beg_off.ogg/En-au-beg_off.ogg.mp3",
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    }
  ],
  "word": "beg off"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "beg + off",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "begs off",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "begging off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "begged off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "begged off",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "beg off (third-person singular simple present begs off, present participle begging off, simple past and past participle begged off)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs formed with \"off\"",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I wonder if I can beg off going to the meeting that day, since it will take me an extra two hours out of my way.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1985 December 7, Christine Guilfoy, Bailus Walker, “Quarantine Is No Way To Fight AIDS”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 21, page 8:",
          "text": "That's an issue that I have not discussed with the legal people. I don't know what authority we have to prevent insurance companies from setting criteria for those people that they would insure. Whether that rests with us or with the Commissioner of Insurance, I don't know. I'm going to have to beg off that question.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To obtain somebody's permission to skip or cancel an event that one has previously arranged with them."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "skip",
          "skip"
        ],
        [
          "cancel",
          "cancel"
        ],
        [
          "event",
          "event"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To obtain somebody's permission to skip or cancel an event that one has previously arranged with them."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
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    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "cry off"
    }
  ],
  "word": "beg off"
}