See orders are orders on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "de",
"3": "Befehl ist Befehl",
"4": "",
"5": "order is order"
},
"expansion": "Calque of German Befehl ist Befehl (“order is order”)",
"name": "clq"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Calque of German Befehl ist Befehl (“order is order”), used as a defence during the Nuremberg trials (see Nuremberg defense).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "phrase"
},
"expansion": "orders are orders",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "phrase",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Italian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Used wryly when someone attempts to justify questionable actions by referring to rules, laws or orders from higher up."
],
"id": "en-orders_are_orders-en-phrase-AZSFkaGG",
"translations": [
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "bevel is bevel"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "Befehl ist Befehl"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "käsky on käsky"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "les ordres sont les ordres"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "Befehl ist Befehl"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "a parancs az parancs"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "gli ordini sono ordini"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "rozkaz to rozkaz"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "órdenes son órdenes"
}
]
}
],
"word": "orders are orders"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "de",
"3": "Befehl ist Befehl",
"4": "",
"5": "order is order"
},
"expansion": "Calque of German Befehl ist Befehl (“order is order”)",
"name": "clq"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Calque of German Befehl ist Befehl (“order is order”), used as a defence during the Nuremberg trials (see Nuremberg defense).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "phrase"
},
"expansion": "orders are orders",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "phrase",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English phrases",
"English terms calqued from German",
"English terms derived from German",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Translation table header lacks gloss"
],
"glosses": [
"Used wryly when someone attempts to justify questionable actions by referring to rules, laws or orders from higher up."
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "bevel is bevel"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "Befehl ist Befehl"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "käsky on käsky"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "les ordres sont les ordres"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "Befehl ist Befehl"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "a parancs az parancs"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "gli ordini sono ordini"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "rozkaz to rozkaz"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "órdenes son órdenes"
}
],
"word": "orders are orders"
}
Download raw JSONL data for orders are orders meaning in All languages combined (2.1kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (4ba5975 and 4ed51a5). 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.