See on the side of the angels on Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "more on the side of the angels",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most on the side of the angels",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "on the side of the angels (comparative more on the side of the angels, superlative most on the side of the angels)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"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": "1999, Melvyn L. Fein, The Limits of Idealism: When Good Intentions Go Bad, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, →ISBN, page 55:",
"text": "Each likewise portrays itself as on the side of the angels, as fighting the good fight against adversaries who are neither decent nor fair.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Mark Pallen, The Rough Guide to Evolution, Rough Guides, →ISBN:",
"text": "But when it comes to the conflict between compassion and cold reason, he is on the side of the angels: […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012 January 15, Stephen Thompson, \"The Reichenbach Fall\", episode 2-3 of Sherlock, 01:16:03-01:16:12",
"text": "Sherlock Holmes: Oh, I may be on the side of the angels, but don't think for one second that I am one of them."
}
],
"glosses": [
"Fighting for or supporting that which is good, just, or benevolent."
],
"id": "en-on_the_side_of_the_angels-en-adj-1bv8-f5a",
"links": [
[
"good",
"good"
],
[
"just",
"just"
],
[
"benevolent",
"benevolent"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) Fighting for or supporting that which is good, just, or benevolent."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-on the side of the angels.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/37/En-au-on_the_side_of_the_angels.ogg/En-au-on_the_side_of_the_angels.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/En-au-on_the_side_of_the_angels.ogg"
}
],
"word": "on the side of the angels"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "more on the side of the angels",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most on the side of the angels",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "on the side of the angels (comparative more on the side of the angels, superlative most on the side of the angels)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English idioms",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1999, Melvyn L. Fein, The Limits of Idealism: When Good Intentions Go Bad, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, →ISBN, page 55:",
"text": "Each likewise portrays itself as on the side of the angels, as fighting the good fight against adversaries who are neither decent nor fair.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Mark Pallen, The Rough Guide to Evolution, Rough Guides, →ISBN:",
"text": "But when it comes to the conflict between compassion and cold reason, he is on the side of the angels: […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012 January 15, Stephen Thompson, \"The Reichenbach Fall\", episode 2-3 of Sherlock, 01:16:03-01:16:12",
"text": "Sherlock Holmes: Oh, I may be on the side of the angels, but don't think for one second that I am one of them."
}
],
"glosses": [
"Fighting for or supporting that which is good, just, or benevolent."
],
"links": [
[
"good",
"good"
],
[
"just",
"just"
],
[
"benevolent",
"benevolent"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) Fighting for or supporting that which is good, just, or benevolent."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-on the side of the angels.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/37/En-au-on_the_side_of_the_angels.ogg/En-au-on_the_side_of_the_angels.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/En-au-on_the_side_of_the_angels.ogg"
}
],
"word": "on the side of the angels"
}
Download raw JSONL data for on the side of the angels meaning in All languages combined (2.0kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). 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.