"kiss of death" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "Biblical: Judas betraying Jesus with a kiss.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "kisses of death",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "kisses of death"
      },
      "expansion": "kiss of death (plural kisses of death)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "62 38",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A kiss on the cheek that signifies the death of the receiver, as delivered by a mob boss or one with such influence."
      ],
      "id": "en-kiss_of_death-en-noun-S2~4lvdq",
      "links": [
        [
          "kiss",
          "kiss"
        ],
        [
          "cheek",
          "cheek"
        ],
        [
          "death",
          "death"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "word": "kiss of life"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The role in the soap opera was the kiss of death for Ann's career as a theatrical actress.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, James D. Hornfischer, “26: Suicide”, in Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal, New York: Bantam Books, retrieved 2022-12-17, page 256",
          "text": "Confronted with the savage defenses, many of the Japanese pilots flinched. Failure to hold formation was the kiss of death. As they reached the crucial moment of decision—push ahead and drop the torpedo, or lose nerve and turn away—most chose the latter. Turning, they lost airspeed and showed their bellies to the hungry Navy gunners, and that was it. The twenties and forties lit them like fuses. The five-inch guns \"seemed to literally hammer them down,\" Captain Hoover of the Helena remarked.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something that may seem good and favourable but that actually brings ruin to hopes, plans, etc."
      ],
      "id": "en-kiss_of_death-en-noun-YNFuKf2S",
      "links": [
        [
          "favourable",
          "favourable"
        ],
        [
          "ruin",
          "ruin"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, idiomatic) Something that may seem good and favourable but that actually brings ruin to hopes, plans, etc."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Kiss of Death"
  ],
  "word": "kiss of death"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with audio links"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Biblical: Judas betraying Jesus with a kiss.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "kisses of death",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "kisses of death"
      },
      "expansion": "kiss of death (plural kisses of death)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "kiss of life"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A kiss on the cheek that signifies the death of the receiver, as delivered by a mob boss or one with such influence."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "kiss",
          "kiss"
        ],
        [
          "cheek",
          "cheek"
        ],
        [
          "death",
          "death"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The role in the soap opera was the kiss of death for Ann's career as a theatrical actress.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, James D. Hornfischer, “26: Suicide”, in Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal, New York: Bantam Books, retrieved 2022-12-17, page 256",
          "text": "Confronted with the savage defenses, many of the Japanese pilots flinched. Failure to hold formation was the kiss of death. As they reached the crucial moment of decision—push ahead and drop the torpedo, or lose nerve and turn away—most chose the latter. Turning, they lost airspeed and showed their bellies to the hungry Navy gunners, and that was it. The twenties and forties lit them like fuses. The five-inch guns \"seemed to literally hammer them down,\" Captain Hoover of the Helena remarked.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something that may seem good and favourable but that actually brings ruin to hopes, plans, etc."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "favourable",
          "favourable"
        ],
        [
          "ruin",
          "ruin"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, idiomatic) Something that may seem good and favourable but that actually brings ruin to hopes, plans, etc."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
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    "Kiss of Death"
  ],
  "word": "kiss of death"
}