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Download JSON data for laugh out of court meaning in All languages combined (1.5kB)
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"forms": [
{
"form": "laughs out of court",
"tags": [
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"singular",
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},
{
"form": "laughing out of court",
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"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "laughed out of court",
"tags": [
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},
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}
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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"examples": [
{
"text": "The claim that his dog wrote the poems was laughed out of court by publishers."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To dismiss as silly something presented with genuine conviction or treated seriously."
],
"id": "en-laugh_out_of_court-en-verb-QyPe50GO",
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],
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"seriously",
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]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) To dismiss as silly something presented with genuine conviction or treated seriously."
],
"tags": [
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"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "nauraa pihalle"
}
]
}
],
"word": "laugh out of court"
}
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"form": "laughs out of court",
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"form": "laughing out of court",
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"form": "laughed out of court",
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"examples": [
{
"text": "The claim that his dog wrote the poems was laughed out of court by publishers."
}
],
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"To dismiss as silly something presented with genuine conviction or treated seriously."
],
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"dismiss",
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[
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],
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) To dismiss as silly something presented with genuine conviction or treated seriously."
],
"tags": [
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],
"translations": [
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "nauraa pihalle"
}
],
"word": "laugh out of court"
}
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