"cry carrots and turnips" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "Probably referring to the vegetables which spectators would pelt at the person drawn on the cart. Green's Dictionary of Slang suggests that the term is of onomatopoeic origin.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cries carrots and turnips",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crying carrots and turnips",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cried carrots and turnips",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cried carrots and turnips",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "cry carrots and turnips (third-person singular simple present cries carrots and turnips, present participle crying carrots and turnips, simple past and past participle cried carrots and turnips)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1895, H. B. Marriott Watson, “Of a Meeting at Fulham”, in The Chap-Book: Semi-Monthly, Chicago, I.L.: Stone & Kimball, page 483:",
          "text": "I had a mighty queer adventure in communion with that foul toad, Titus Oates, whom I afterwards rejoiced to see crying carrots and turnips, with all London looking on.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be taken through the streets on a cart while being whipped, as a punishment for certain crimes."
      ],
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        ],
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          "punishment",
          "punishment#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "crimes",
          "crime#Noun"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, obsolete) To be taken through the streets on a cart while being whipped, as a punishment for certain crimes."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "slang"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Green's Dictionary of Slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cry carrots and turnips"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Probably referring to the vegetables which spectators would pelt at the person drawn on the cart. Green's Dictionary of Slang suggests that the term is of onomatopoeic origin.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cries carrots and turnips",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crying carrots and turnips",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cried carrots and turnips",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cried carrots and turnips",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "cry carrots and turnips (third-person singular simple present cries carrots and turnips, present participle crying carrots and turnips, simple past and past participle cried carrots and turnips)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1895, H. B. Marriott Watson, “Of a Meeting at Fulham”, in The Chap-Book: Semi-Monthly, Chicago, I.L.: Stone & Kimball, page 483:",
          "text": "I had a mighty queer adventure in communion with that foul toad, Titus Oates, whom I afterwards rejoiced to see crying carrots and turnips, with all London looking on.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be taken through the streets on a cart while being whipped, as a punishment for certain crimes."
      ],
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        ],
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          "whipped",
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        ],
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        ],
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          "crimes",
          "crime#Noun"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, obsolete) To be taken through the streets on a cart while being whipped, as a punishment for certain crimes."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "slang"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Green's Dictionary of Slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cry carrots and turnips"
}