"kick the beam" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "kicks the beam",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kicking the beam",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kicked the beam",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kicked the beam",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "kick the beam (third-person singular simple present kicks the beam, present participle kicking the beam, simple past and past participle kicked the beam)",
      "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"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 1004-1005:",
          "text": "The latter quick up flew, and kick'd the beam; / Which Gabriel spying, thus bespake the Fiend.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To rise up and strike the beam; said of the lighter arm of a loaded balance; hence, to be found lacking in weight, or of little importance."
      ],
      "id": "en-kick_the_beam-en-verb-Y3K9840n",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, archaic) To rise up and strike the beam; said of the lighter arm of a loaded balance; hence, to be found lacking in weight, or of little importance."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "kick the beam"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "kicks the beam",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kicking the beam",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kicked the beam",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kicked the beam",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "kick the beam (third-person singular simple present kicks the beam, present participle kicking the beam, simple past and past participle kicked the beam)",
      "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 terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 1004-1005:",
          "text": "The latter quick up flew, and kick'd the beam; / Which Gabriel spying, thus bespake the Fiend.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To rise up and strike the beam; said of the lighter arm of a loaded balance; hence, to be found lacking in weight, or of little importance."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, archaic) To rise up and strike the beam; said of the lighter arm of a loaded balance; hence, to be found lacking in weight, or of little importance."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "kick the beam"
}