"drown the miller" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "Originally drown the miller's thumb, meaning to go over the specified mark.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "drowns the miller",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "drowning the miller",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "drowned the miller",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "drowned the miller",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "drown the miller (third-person singular simple present drowns the miller, present participle drowning the miller, simple past and past participle drowned the miller)",
      "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": "1821, The Economist, page 241",
          "text": "[…] I tell my Bowl Friends, that our ministers have spoilt the punch. Sometimes they give us too much spirit, as when they display a vigour beyond the law; and sometimes, as we say, they drown the Miller, and make sad insipid stuff of it; again they sting our throats with acid; but it is not once in a century that we have cause to complain of an excess of sugar.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To put too much water in something; overdilute."
      ],
      "id": "en-drown_the_miller-en-verb-Lj-cHvYQ",
      "links": [
        [
          "water",
          "water"
        ],
        [
          "overdilute",
          "overdilute"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, idiomatic, slang) To put too much water in something; overdilute."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "obsolete",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "drown the miller"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Originally drown the miller's thumb, meaning to go over the specified mark.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "drowns the miller",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "drowning the miller",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "drowned the miller",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "drowned the miller",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "drown the miller (third-person singular simple present drowns the miller, present participle drowning the miller, simple past and past participle drowned the miller)",
      "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 slang",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1821, The Economist, page 241",
          "text": "[…] I tell my Bowl Friends, that our ministers have spoilt the punch. Sometimes they give us too much spirit, as when they display a vigour beyond the law; and sometimes, as we say, they drown the Miller, and make sad insipid stuff of it; again they sting our throats with acid; but it is not once in a century that we have cause to complain of an excess of sugar.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To put too much water in something; overdilute."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "water",
          "water"
        ],
        [
          "overdilute",
          "overdilute"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, idiomatic, slang) To put too much water in something; overdilute."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "obsolete",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "drown the miller"
}