See show one's claws on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "From the way a feline will extend its claws when attacking, as opposed to leaving them retracted so that they do not show.", "forms": [ { "form": "shows one's claws", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "showing one's claws", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "showed one's claws", "tags": [ "past" ] }, { "form": "shown one's claws", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "*", "2": "", "3": "", "4": "shown one's claws" }, "expansion": "show one's claws (third-person singular simple present shows one's claws, present participle showing one's claws, simple past showed one's claws, past participle shown one's claws)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "_dis": "79 21", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "81 19", "kind": "other", "name": "Entries with translation boxes", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "78 22", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "90 10", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "89 11", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Finnish translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1949, Chess Review - Volume 17, page 7:", "text": "In this event he really showed his claws by winning ten games, drawing four while losing four.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2013, Gwen Moffat, Space Below My Feet:", "text": "Perhaps if I'd been dressed in conventional clothes and carried a suitcase they would have been more sure of themselves, but right up until the time that I reached my final destination, a transit camp outside Liverpool, I was handled with kid gloves, as if they suspected my present tractability were transient and that if they made a false move I would show my claws.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2014, Janet L. Nelson, Charles The Bald, page xiv:", "text": "But when Louis showed his claws, Lothar knew he meant business.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To demonstrate one's ability to hurt another." ], "id": "en-show_one's_claws-en-verb-LMcCZDhU", "links": [ [ "demonstrate", "demonstrate" ], [ "hurt", "hurt" ], [ "another", "another" ] ], "translations": [ { "_dis1": "97 3", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "to demonstrate one's abilities", "word": "näyttää kyntensä" } ] }, { "glosses": [ "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see show, claw." ], "id": "en-show_one's_claws-en-verb-13ILZ7xC", "links": [ [ "show", "show#English" ], [ "claw", "claw#English" ] ] } ], "word": "show one's claws" }
{ "categories": [ "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English verbs", "Entries with translation boxes", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Terms with Finnish translations" ], "etymology_text": "From the way a feline will extend its claws when attacking, as opposed to leaving them retracted so that they do not show.", "forms": [ { "form": "shows one's claws", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "showing one's claws", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "showed one's claws", "tags": [ "past" ] }, { "form": "shown one's claws", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "*", "2": "", "3": "", "4": "shown one's claws" }, "expansion": "show one's claws (third-person singular simple present shows one's claws, present participle showing one's claws, simple past showed one's claws, past participle shown one's claws)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English terms with quotations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1949, Chess Review - Volume 17, page 7:", "text": "In this event he really showed his claws by winning ten games, drawing four while losing four.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2013, Gwen Moffat, Space Below My Feet:", "text": "Perhaps if I'd been dressed in conventional clothes and carried a suitcase they would have been more sure of themselves, but right up until the time that I reached my final destination, a transit camp outside Liverpool, I was handled with kid gloves, as if they suspected my present tractability were transient and that if they made a false move I would show my claws.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2014, Janet L. Nelson, Charles The Bald, page xiv:", "text": "But when Louis showed his claws, Lothar knew he meant business.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To demonstrate one's ability to hurt another." ], "links": [ [ "demonstrate", "demonstrate" ], [ "hurt", "hurt" ], [ "another", "another" ] ] }, { "glosses": [ "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see show, claw." ], "links": [ [ "show", "show#English" ], [ "claw", "claw#English" ] ] } ], "translations": [ { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "to demonstrate one's abilities", "word": "näyttää kyntensä" } ], "word": "show one's claws" }
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