See scratch one's own itch on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "From scratch an itch.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "scratches one's own itch",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "scratching one's own itch",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
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},
{
"form": "scratched one's own itch",
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"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "scratched one's own itch",
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"past"
]
}
],
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"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1999, Eric S. Raymond, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, section 2:",
"text": "Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2013, The Escape Manifesto: Quit Your Corporate Job. Do Something Different!:",
"text": "The best advice for coming up with a business idea is \"scratch your own itch\". This is good advice for a variety of reasons. If you can think of a problem that you'd like a business to solve for you, the chances are other people share that problem.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"To do something out of motivation to solve a personal problem; to take matters into one's own hands."
],
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"take matters into one's own hands",
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],
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"(idiomatic) To do something out of motivation to solve a personal problem; to take matters into one's own hands."
],
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"glosses": [
"to masturbate"
],
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"masturbate",
"masturbate"
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic, euphemistic) to masturbate"
],
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],
"word": "scratch one's own itch"
}
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"English lemmas",
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"English verbs",
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"etymology_text": "From scratch an itch.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "scratches one's own itch",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "scratching one's own itch",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "scratched one's own itch",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "scratched one's own itch",
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"past"
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}
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"name": "en-verb"
}
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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"ref": "1999, Eric S. Raymond, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, section 2:",
"text": "Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2013, The Escape Manifesto: Quit Your Corporate Job. Do Something Different!:",
"text": "The best advice for coming up with a business idea is \"scratch your own itch\". This is good advice for a variety of reasons. If you can think of a problem that you'd like a business to solve for you, the chances are other people share that problem.",
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],
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"To do something out of motivation to solve a personal problem; to take matters into one's own hands."
],
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"take matters into one's own hands",
"take matters into one's own hands"
]
],
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"(idiomatic) To do something out of motivation to solve a personal problem; to take matters into one's own hands."
],
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"idiomatic"
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},
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"to masturbate"
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"(idiomatic, euphemistic) to masturbate"
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