"bite of the cherry" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "A cherry is a small fruit usually eaten in a single bite, and the phrase was originally intended to refer specifically to an attempt to repeat an already-completed action.\nBy the 1940s, cherry had taken on the additional meaning of \"virginity\" and the phrase was considered embarrassing, and so \"apple\" replaced \"cherry\" chiefly in American usage. As an apple is usually eaten in many bites, the additional nuance of \"an unrepeatable action\" was increasingly lost. The first recorded use of the \"apple\" form is in 1922.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bites of the cherry",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A chance; an attempt at something, especially something that can or should only be done once."
      ],
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        [
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        ],
        [
          "attempt",
          "attempt"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) A chance; an attempt at something, especially something that can or should only be done once."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bite at the cherry"
        },
        {
          "word": "bite at the apple"
        },
        {
          "word": "bite of the apple"
        }
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
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  "word": "bite of the cherry"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "A cherry is a small fruit usually eaten in a single bite, and the phrase was originally intended to refer specifically to an attempt to repeat an already-completed action.\nBy the 1940s, cherry had taken on the additional meaning of \"virginity\" and the phrase was considered embarrassing, and so \"apple\" replaced \"cherry\" chiefly in American usage. As an apple is usually eaten in many bites, the additional nuance of \"an unrepeatable action\" was increasingly lost. The first recorded use of the \"apple\" form is in 1922.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bites of the cherry",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A chance; an attempt at something, especially something that can or should only be done once."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "chance",
          "chance"
        ],
        [
          "attempt",
          "attempt"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) A chance; an attempt at something, especially something that can or should only be done once."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bite at the cherry"
        },
        {
          "word": "bite at the apple"
        },
        {
          "word": "bite of the apple"
        }
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
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