See instant karma on Wiktionary
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{ "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "instant", "3": "karma" }, "expansion": "instant + karma", "name": "com" } ], "etymology_text": "From instant + karma.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "-" }, "expansion": "instant karma (uncountable)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English compound terms", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nouns", "English terms with quotations", "English uncountable nouns", "Entries with translation boxes", "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Terms with Finnish translations", "Terms with German translations", "Terms with Indonesian translations", "Terms with Mandarin translations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1971, Jon Anderson, Chris Squire (lyrics and music), “I've Seen All Good People”, performed by Yes:", "text": "Don't surround yourself with yourself\nMove on back two squares\nSend an instant karma to me\nInitial it with loving care.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1991 May 5, The Canberra Times, page 9, column 2:", "text": "The eyes that met Paul's across a crowded London club 22 years ago when she was an unknown freelance photographer and he was, what? A god? \"Instant karma\" — this said romantically.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A circumstance where something deserving but unexpected happens, especially, when a person's actions backfire and cause an immediate unforeseen and unintended effect that may be deemed just deserts for those actions." ], "links": [ [ "deserving", "deserving" ], [ "unexpected", "unexpected" ], [ "backfire", "backfire" ], [ "just deserts", "just deserts" ] ], "tags": [ "uncountable" ] } ], "translations": [ { "code": "cmn", "english": "karmic retribution within one's lifetime", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "xiànshìbào", "sense": "circumstance", "word": "現世報 /现世报" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "note": "välitön karma (idiomatic expression with similar meaning: saada ansionsa mukaan)", "sense": "circumstance" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "note": "as a noun, rare anglicism", "sense": "circumstance", "tags": [ "neuter" ], "word": "sofortiges Karma" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "raw_tags": [ "with the same meaning" ], "sense": "circumstance", "tags": [ "idiomatic", "phrase" ], "word": "kleine Sünden bestraft der liebe Gott sofort" }, { "code": "id", "lang": "Indonesian", "sense": "circumstance", "word": "kualat" } ], "word": "instant karma" }
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