"carry the ball" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "carries the ball",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carrying the ball",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carried the ball",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carried the ball",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "carry the ball (third-person singular simple present carries the ball, present participle carrying the ball, simple past and past participle carried the ball)",
      "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"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1985 August 17, Vincent F. Luti, “Ignore the Twaddle, Give, Give, Give”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 6, page 4",
          "text": "What is perhaps embarrassing to gay men is that women are making honest, gritty statements — carrying the balls, as it were — and producing very interesting gay writing, gay music, gay films, gay politics as (gulp) Lesbians.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To predominate in terms of responsibility, initiative, or progress."
      ],
      "id": "en-carry_the_ball-en-verb-5FxmhIvO",
      "links": [
        [
          "predominate",
          "predominate"
        ],
        [
          "responsibility",
          "responsibility"
        ],
        [
          "initiative",
          "initiative"
        ],
        [
          "progress",
          "progress"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To predominate in terms of responsibility, initiative, or progress."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "ball carrier"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "carry the ball"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "carries the ball",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carrying the ball",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carried the ball",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carried the ball",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "carry the ball (third-person singular simple present carries the ball, present participle carrying the ball, simple past and past participle carried the ball)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "ball carrier"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1985 August 17, Vincent F. Luti, “Ignore the Twaddle, Give, Give, Give”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 6, page 4",
          "text": "What is perhaps embarrassing to gay men is that women are making honest, gritty statements — carrying the balls, as it were — and producing very interesting gay writing, gay music, gay films, gay politics as (gulp) Lesbians.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To predominate in terms of responsibility, initiative, or progress."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "predominate",
          "predominate"
        ],
        [
          "responsibility",
          "responsibility"
        ],
        [
          "initiative",
          "initiative"
        ],
        [
          "progress",
          "progress"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To predominate in terms of responsibility, initiative, or progress."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "carry the ball"
}