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{
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"singular",
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},
{
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},
{
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},
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"name": "en-verb"
}
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"text": "Everything seems to be going wrong today.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "If you want good weather, you can't go wrong with Spain.",
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},
{
"ref": "2012, Amy Keating Rogers, The Last Roundup, spoken by Derpy Hooves",
"text": "I just don't know what went wrong!",
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"ref": "2023 April 19, Philip Haigh, “Gauging ways to ensure rail freight gains more paths”, in RAIL, number 981, page 45",
"text": "Johnson explained that absolute gauging assumed that everything that could go wrong would go wrong at the same time, resulting in the train hitting the platform. In contrast, probabilistic gauging says that everything can go wrong, but not at the same time.",
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"To fail or go amiss; to have a bad outcome."
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"(intransitive, idiomatic) To fail or go amiss; to have a bad outcome."
],
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to fail",
"word": "mennä pieleen"
},
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"sense": "to fail",
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"sense": "to fail",
"word": "mal tourner"
},
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"sense": "to fail",
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},
{
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"word": "schieflaufen"
},
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"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "hishtabésh",
"sense": "to fail",
"word": "השתבש"
},
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"sense": "to fail",
"word": "félresikerül"
},
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"_dis1": "90 4 6",
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"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to fail",
"word": "fara úrskeiðis"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 4 6",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to fail",
"word": "finire male"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 4 6",
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"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to fail",
"word": "takahē"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 4 6",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to fail",
"word": "dar errado"
},
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"_dis1": "90 4 6",
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"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "to fail",
"word": "finiri a frocia"
},
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"sense": "to fail",
"word": "finiri a jocu di focu"
},
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"_dis1": "90 4 6",
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"sense": "to fail",
"word": "ir mal"
},
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"_dis1": "90 4 6",
"code": "cy",
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"sense": "to fail",
"word": "mynd o'i le"
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]
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{
"text": "The vending machine went wrong and dispensed five cans of drink at once."
}
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"(intransitive, idiomatic) To malfunction."
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to malfunction",
"word": "hajota"
},
{
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"sense": "to malfunction",
"word": "mennä rikki"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 94 2",
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"sense": "to malfunction",
"word": "mennä epäkuntoon"
},
{
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"sense": "to malfunction",
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}
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"ref": "1977, Electric Light Orchestra (lyrics and music), “Mr. Blue Sky”, in Out of the Blue",
"text": "Mr. Blue Sky / Please tell us why / You had to hide away for so long (so long) / Where did we go wrong?",
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"To become wicked or depraved."
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"(intransitive, idiomatic) To become wicked or depraved."
],
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"word": "break bad"
},
{
"word": "go bad"
},
{
"word": "go to the bad"
},
{
"word": "stray"
}
],
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"_dis1": "6 3 91",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to become depraved",
"word": "turmeltua"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 3 91",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to become depraved",
"word": "mennä rappiolle"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 3 91",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to become depraved",
"word": "mal tourner"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 3 91",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to become depraved",
"word": "víkja af réttri leið"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 3 91",
"code": "zdj",
"lang": "Ngazidja Comorian",
"sense": "to become depraved",
"word": "undjia shonga"
}
]
}
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"word": "go wrong"
}
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"text": "I just don't know what went wrong!",
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"(intransitive, idiomatic) To fail or go amiss; to have a bad outcome."
],
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"To malfunction."
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"(intransitive, idiomatic) To malfunction."
],
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"text": "Mr. Blue Sky / Please tell us why / You had to hide away for so long (so long) / Where did we go wrong?",
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],
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"To become wicked or depraved."
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"(intransitive, idiomatic) To become wicked or depraved."
],
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"word": "break bad"
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{
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},
{
"word": "go to the bad"
},
{
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to fail",
"word": "mennä pieleen"
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{
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to fail",
"word": "epäonnistua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to fail",
"word": "mennä mönkään"
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{
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "to fail",
"word": "mal tourner"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to fail",
"word": "schiefgehen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to fail",
"word": "schieflaufen"
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{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "hishtabésh",
"sense": "to fail",
"word": "השתבש"
},
{
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"roman": "hitfakshésh",
"sense": "to fail",
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"word": "התפקשש"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to fail",
"word": "félresikerül"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to fail",
"word": "fara úrskeiðis"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to fail",
"word": "finire male"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to fail",
"word": "takahē"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to fail",
"word": "dar errado"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "to fail",
"word": "finiri a frocia"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "to fail",
"word": "finiri a jocu di focu"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to fail",
"word": "ir mal"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "to fail",
"word": "mynd o'i le"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to malfunction",
"word": "hajota"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to malfunction",
"word": "mennä rikki"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to malfunction",
"word": "mennä epäkuntoon"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to malfunction",
"word": "elromlik"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to become depraved",
"word": "turmeltua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to become depraved",
"word": "mennä rappiolle"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to become depraved",
"word": "mal tourner"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to become depraved",
"word": "víkja af réttri leið"
},
{
"code": "zdj",
"lang": "Ngazidja Comorian",
"sense": "to become depraved",
"word": "undjia shonga"
}
],
"word": "go wrong"
}
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