"could eat the crutch from a low flying duck" meaning in All languages combined

See could eat the crutch from a low flying duck on Wiktionary

Phrase [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|phrase}} could eat the crutch from a low flying duck
  1. (Australia, slang) Alternative form of could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck Tags: Australia, alt-of, alternative, slang Alternative form of: could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck
    Sense id: en-could_eat_the_crutch_from_a_low_flying_duck-en-phrase-JqAJ2oDI Categories (other): Australian English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "phrase"
      },
      "expansion": "could eat the crutch from a low flying duck",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Australian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999 March 6, Tom D, “LaGrande - asking for trouble”, in alt.music.leonard-cohen (Usenet):",
          "text": "Now I have to go and eat. I'm so hungry I could eat the crutch out of a low-flying duck!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Rachael Treasure, The Rouseabout, →ISBN:",
          "text": "'And how's Dave?' 'So hungry I could eat the diff out of a shit truck,' came Dave's deep voice from beneath the tarp. 'Or eat the crutch from a low-flying duck,' Kate added.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck"
      ],
      "id": "en-could_eat_the_crutch_from_a_low_flying_duck-en-phrase-JqAJ2oDI",
      "links": [
        [
          "could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck",
          "could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, slang) Alternative form of could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "could eat the crutch from a low flying duck"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "phrase"
      },
      "expansion": "could eat the crutch from a low flying duck",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "Australian English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrases",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999 March 6, Tom D, “LaGrande - asking for trouble”, in alt.music.leonard-cohen (Usenet):",
          "text": "Now I have to go and eat. I'm so hungry I could eat the crutch out of a low-flying duck!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Rachael Treasure, The Rouseabout, →ISBN:",
          "text": "'And how's Dave?' 'So hungry I could eat the diff out of a shit truck,' came Dave's deep voice from beneath the tarp. 'Or eat the crutch from a low-flying duck,' Kate added.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck",
          "could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, slang) Alternative form of could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "could eat the crutch from a low flying duck"
}

Download raw JSONL data for could eat the crutch from a low flying duck meaning in All languages combined (1.4kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.