See rake over old coals on Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "rakes over old coals",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "raking over old coals",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "raked over old coals",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "raked over old coals",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "*"
},
"expansion": "rake over old coals (third-person singular simple present rakes over old coals, present participle raking over old coals, simple past and past participle raked over old coals)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "British English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"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"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To bring back old problems; to dig up old trouble."
],
"id": "en-rake_over_old_coals-en-verb-BhLBu-Pw",
"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively, British) To bring back old problems; to dig up old trouble."
],
"tags": [
"British",
"figuratively"
]
}
],
"word": "rake over old coals"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "rakes over old coals",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "raking over old coals",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "raked over old coals",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "raked over old coals",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "*"
},
"expansion": "rake over old coals (third-person singular simple present rakes over old coals, present participle raking over old coals, simple past and past participle raked over old coals)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"To bring back old problems; to dig up old trouble."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively, British) To bring back old problems; to dig up old trouble."
],
"tags": [
"British",
"figuratively"
]
}
],
"word": "rake over old coals"
}
Download raw JSONL data for rake over old coals meaning in All languages combined (1.0kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (b941637 and 4230888). 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.