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"To deliver a message by telephone when etiquette demands the effort and respect conveyed by communication in person."
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"(transitive) To deliver a message by telephone when etiquette demands the effort and respect conveyed by communication in person."
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"_dis1": "84 11 2 3",
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "deliver a message by telephone",
"word": "soittaa (jollekin)"
}
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"To make a telephone call to a broadcasting station, especially to participate in a program being aired."
],
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]
],
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"(transitive) To make a telephone call to a broadcasting station, especially to participate in a program being aired."
],
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"sense": "to call a broadcasting station",
"word": "soittaa ohjelmaan"
},
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"_dis1": "3 87 3 7",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to call a broadcasting station",
"word": "ringa in"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 87 3 7",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "foon-in",
"sense": "to call a broadcasting station",
"word": "โฟนอิน"
}
]
},
{
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{
"_dis1": "18 20 62 0",
"tags": [
"adjective"
],
"word": "phone-in"
},
{
"_dis1": "18 20 62 0",
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"noun"
],
"word": "phone-in"
}
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"ref": "1998 January 12, “It's All About Timing”, in TIME",
"text": "But here was someone who could have been paid regally for just phoning it in for another year or two willing instead to throw that all away",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2000 April 26, Candy Sagon, “All Talk, No Cooking”, in Washington Post",
"text": "his new show with Julia Child -- \"Julia and Jacques Cooking At Home\" on WMPT Channel 22 -- is a clever marketing stroke, but at times both of these veteran teachers seem to be phoning it in.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2008 October 6, “Getting Offensive; How Will Voters Respond?”, in ABC GMA",
"text": "And I think our campaign put a lot more on the line, frankly, to try to solve that problem than Senator Obama, who tried to phone it in.",
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],
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"As phone it in (idiomatic) To fulfill a responsibility with a minimum effort rather than the appropriate level of effort."
],
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"(transitive, intransitive) As phone it in (idiomatic) To fulfill a responsibility with a minimum effort rather than the appropriate level of effort."
],
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],
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"_dis1": "13 5 79 2",
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"sense": "to fulfill a responsibility with a minimum effort",
"word": "tehdä vasemmalla kädellä (jotakin)"
},
{
"_dis1": "13 5 79 2",
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to fulfill a responsibility with a minimum effort",
"word": "tehdä rimaa hipoen (jotakin)"
},
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"_dis1": "13 5 79 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to fulfill a responsibility with a minimum effort",
"word": "faire le service minimum"
},
{
"_dis1": "13 5 79 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to fulfill a responsibility with a minimum effort",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "colocar pouco esforço em algo"
}
]
},
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"To make an unseemly, timid performance; to be restrained and timid when bold action is called for."
],
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"bold",
"bold"
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[
"called for",
"call for"
]
],
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"(transitive) To make an unseemly, timid performance; to be restrained and timid when bold action is called for."
],
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"transitive"
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"_dis1": "20 17 1 62",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make a timid performance",
"word": "arastella"
}
]
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"tags": [
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"word": "phone in"
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"form": "phones in",
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"present"
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"respect",
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"convey"
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"(transitive) To deliver a message by telephone when etiquette demands the effort and respect conveyed by communication in person."
],
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"transitive"
]
},
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"English transitive verbs"
],
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"To make a telephone call to a broadcasting station, especially to participate in a program being aired."
],
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"telephone call",
"telephone call"
],
[
"broadcasting",
"broadcasting"
],
[
"station",
"station"
],
[
"participate",
"participate"
],
[
"program",
"program"
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[
"air",
"air"
]
],
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"(transitive) To make a telephone call to a broadcasting station, especially to participate in a program being aired."
],
"tags": [
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]
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"English intransitive verbs",
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1998 January 12, “It's All About Timing”, in TIME",
"text": "But here was someone who could have been paid regally for just phoning it in for another year or two willing instead to throw that all away",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2000 April 26, Candy Sagon, “All Talk, No Cooking”, in Washington Post",
"text": "his new show with Julia Child -- \"Julia and Jacques Cooking At Home\" on WMPT Channel 22 -- is a clever marketing stroke, but at times both of these veteran teachers seem to be phoning it in.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2008 October 6, “Getting Offensive; How Will Voters Respond?”, in ABC GMA",
"text": "And I think our campaign put a lot more on the line, frankly, to try to solve that problem than Senator Obama, who tried to phone it in.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"As phone it in (idiomatic) To fulfill a responsibility with a minimum effort rather than the appropriate level of effort."
],
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"fulfill",
"fulfill"
],
[
"responsibility",
"responsibility"
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],
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"(transitive, intransitive) As phone it in (idiomatic) To fulfill a responsibility with a minimum effort rather than the appropriate level of effort."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"transitive"
]
},
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"English transitive verbs"
],
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"To make an unseemly, timid performance; to be restrained and timid when bold action is called for."
],
"links": [
[
"unseemly",
"unseemly"
],
[
"timid",
"timid"
],
[
"performance",
"performance"
],
[
"restrained",
"restrained"
],
[
"bold",
"bold"
],
[
"action",
"action"
],
[
"called for",
"call for"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To make an unseemly, timid performance; to be restrained and timid when bold action is called for."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
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"tags": [
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "deliver a message by telephone",
"word": "soittaa (jollekin)"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to call a broadcasting station",
"word": "soittaa ohjelmaan"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to call a broadcasting station",
"word": "ringa in"
},
{
"code": "th",
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"roman": "foon-in",
"sense": "to call a broadcasting station",
"word": "โฟนอิน"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to fulfill a responsibility with a minimum effort",
"word": "tehdä vasemmalla kädellä (jotakin)"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to fulfill a responsibility with a minimum effort",
"word": "tehdä rimaa hipoen (jotakin)"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to fulfill a responsibility with a minimum effort",
"word": "faire le service minimum"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to fulfill a responsibility with a minimum effort",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "colocar pouco esforço em algo"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make a timid performance",
"word": "arastella"
}
],
"word": "phone in"
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