"måla fan på väggen" meaning in All languages combined

See måla fan på väggen on Wiktionary

Phrase [Swedish]

Etymology: Literally, "paint the Devil on the wall". Head templates: {{head|sv|phrase}} måla fan på väggen
  1. to assume the worst is going to happen Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-måla_fan_på_väggen-sv-phrase-7WA84ON7 Categories (other): Swedish entries with incorrect language header, Swedish entries with language name categories using raw markup, Swedish terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of Swedish entries with incorrect language header: 55 45 Disambiguation of Swedish entries with language name categories using raw markup: 53 47 Disambiguation of Swedish terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 52 48
  2. to present a situation as being worse than it actually is Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-måla_fan_på_väggen-sv-phrase-~Jcvq9y9 Categories (other): Swedish entries with incorrect language header, Swedish entries with language name categories using raw markup, Swedish terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of Swedish entries with incorrect language header: 55 45 Disambiguation of Swedish entries with language name categories using raw markup: 53 47 Disambiguation of Swedish terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 52 48

Download JSON data for måla fan på väggen meaning in All languages combined (2.2kB)

{
  "etymology_text": "Literally, \"paint the Devil on the wall\".",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "2": "phrase"
      },
      "expansion": "måla fan på väggen",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Swedish",
  "lang_code": "sv",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "55 45",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "53 47",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Swedish entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "52 48",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Swedish terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "A to B: \"I am going to forget what to say and everyone is going to laugh at me.\""
        },
        {
          "text": "B to A: \"Do not paint the devil on the wall.\""
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to assume the worst is going to happen"
      ],
      "id": "en-måla_fan_på_väggen-sv-phrase-7WA84ON7",
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "55 45",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "53 47",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Swedish entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "52 48",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Swedish terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "She really went too far when she called her fellow party member a fascist.",
          "text": "Hon målade verkligen fan på väggen när hon kallade sin partikamrat fascist.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to present a situation as being worse than it actually is"
      ],
      "id": "en-måla_fan_på_väggen-sv-phrase-~Jcvq9y9",
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "måla fan på väggen"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
    "Swedish entries with language name categories using raw markup",
    "Swedish idioms",
    "Swedish lemmas",
    "Swedish multiword terms",
    "Swedish phrases",
    "Swedish terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Literally, \"paint the Devil on the wall\".",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "2": "phrase"
      },
      "expansion": "måla fan på väggen",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Swedish",
  "lang_code": "sv",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "A to B: \"I am going to forget what to say and everyone is going to laugh at me.\""
        },
        {
          "text": "B to A: \"Do not paint the devil on the wall.\""
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to assume the worst is going to happen"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Swedish terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "She really went too far when she called her fellow party member a fascist.",
          "text": "Hon målade verkligen fan på väggen när hon kallade sin partikamrat fascist.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to present a situation as being worse than it actually is"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "måla fan på väggen"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.