"sweep the board" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sweeps the board",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sweeping the board",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swept the board",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swept the board",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
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        {
          "ref": "1714, Alexander Pope, “Canto III”, in The Rape of the Lock (poetry):",
          "text": "Spadillio first, unconquerable Lord!\nLed off two captive Trumps, and swept the Board.\nAs many more Manillio forc'd to yield,\nAnd march'd a Victor from the verdant Field.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 February 23, “Oscars 2015: 10 things we learned”, in The Guardian (London):",
          "text": "It’s always fun when something massive comes along and sweeps the board, giving everything else a thoroughly good kicking – think Titanic, The Silence of the Lambs, or Lord of the Rings. There’s a sort of deranged, gluttonous feeling, a perverse glee in seeing so many dreams trampled on by a massive cultural juggernaut.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To win all the prizes in a competition."
      ],
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          "win"
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        [
          "prizes",
          "prizes"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To win all the prizes in a competition."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
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        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Card games",
          "orig": "en:Card games",
          "parents": [
            "Games",
            "Recreation",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To take all of the cards."
      ],
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        [
          "card game",
          "card game"
        ],
        [
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          "card"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(card games) To take all of the cards."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "card-games",
        "games"
      ]
    },
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            "Entry maintenance"
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          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
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          "_dis": "5 20 75",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
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      "glosses": [
        "To get enough votes in an election to gain all the seats."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "votes",
          "votes"
        ],
        [
          "seat",
          "seat"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To get enough votes in an election to gain all the seats."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sweeps the board",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sweeping the board",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swept the board",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swept the board",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
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        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1714, Alexander Pope, “Canto III”, in The Rape of the Lock (poetry):",
          "text": "Spadillio first, unconquerable Lord!\nLed off two captive Trumps, and swept the Board.\nAs many more Manillio forc'd to yield,\nAnd march'd a Victor from the verdant Field.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 February 23, “Oscars 2015: 10 things we learned”, in The Guardian (London):",
          "text": "It’s always fun when something massive comes along and sweeps the board, giving everything else a thoroughly good kicking – think Titanic, The Silence of the Lambs, or Lord of the Rings. There’s a sort of deranged, gluttonous feeling, a perverse glee in seeing so many dreams trampled on by a massive cultural juggernaut.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To win all the prizes in a competition."
      ],
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        [
          "win",
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        ],
        [
          "prizes",
          "prizes"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To win all the prizes in a competition."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Card games"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To take all of the cards."
      ],
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        [
          "card game",
          "card game"
        ],
        [
          "card",
          "card"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(card games) To take all of the cards."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "card-games",
        "games"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To get enough votes in an election to gain all the seats."
      ],
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          "votes"
        ],
        [
          "seat",
          "seat"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To get enough votes in an election to gain all the seats."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
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