"take off one's gloves" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takes off one's gloves",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking off one's gloves",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took off one's gloves",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken off one's gloves",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> off one's gloves",
        "head": "take off one's gloves"
      },
      "expansion": "take off one's gloves (third-person singular simple present takes off one's gloves, present participle taking off one's gloves, simple past took off one's gloves, past participle taken off one's gloves)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "54 46",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "45 55",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1952, United States. Congress, Congressional Record, page 8391",
          "text": "The public's duty is to take the role of prosecutor in seeking out the truth: and we ought to roll up our sleeves, take off the gloves, and wade into action.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 541",
          "text": "Ben-Gurion's self-restraint was soon exhausted and the British now took off their gloves to crush the Arabs by all and any means: they collectively punished villages and at one point destroyed a whole neighbourhood of Jaffa.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Hunt Tooley, The Great War: Western Front and Home Front, page 208",
          "text": "So, for example, in the midst of social tensions and manpower shortages in Britain (December 1916), David Lloyd George came to head a war regime which took off its gloves in handling the domestic unrest and keeping dissidents, like Siegfried Sassoon and his famous antiwar letter, out of the public eye.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, András Jakab, Dimitry Kochenov, The Enforcement of EU Law and Values",
          "text": "The Court is willing to take off its gloves for the most serious infringements, however.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be unrestrained, especially in acting in a violent or punitive manner."
      ],
      "id": "en-take_off_one's_gloves-en-verb-oOPjxjub",
      "links": [
        [
          "unrestrained",
          "unrestrained"
        ],
        [
          "violent",
          "violent"
        ],
        [
          "punitive",
          "punitive"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "54 46",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "45 55",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take off, glove."
      ],
      "id": "en-take_off_one's_gloves-en-verb-TFJAYNQA",
      "links": [
        [
          "take off",
          "take off#English"
        ],
        [
          "glove",
          "glove#English"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "word": "gloves are off"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "word": "kid-glove"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "take off one's gloves"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takes off one's gloves",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking off one's gloves",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took off one's gloves",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken off one's gloves",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> off one's gloves",
        "head": "take off one's gloves"
      },
      "expansion": "take off one's gloves (third-person singular simple present takes off one's gloves, present participle taking off one's gloves, simple past took off one's gloves, past participle taken off one's gloves)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "gloves are off"
    },
    {
      "word": "kid-glove"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1952, United States. Congress, Congressional Record, page 8391",
          "text": "The public's duty is to take the role of prosecutor in seeking out the truth: and we ought to roll up our sleeves, take off the gloves, and wade into action.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 541",
          "text": "Ben-Gurion's self-restraint was soon exhausted and the British now took off their gloves to crush the Arabs by all and any means: they collectively punished villages and at one point destroyed a whole neighbourhood of Jaffa.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Hunt Tooley, The Great War: Western Front and Home Front, page 208",
          "text": "So, for example, in the midst of social tensions and manpower shortages in Britain (December 1916), David Lloyd George came to head a war regime which took off its gloves in handling the domestic unrest and keeping dissidents, like Siegfried Sassoon and his famous antiwar letter, out of the public eye.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, András Jakab, Dimitry Kochenov, The Enforcement of EU Law and Values",
          "text": "The Court is willing to take off its gloves for the most serious infringements, however.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be unrestrained, especially in acting in a violent or punitive manner."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "unrestrained",
          "unrestrained"
        ],
        [
          "violent",
          "violent"
        ],
        [
          "punitive",
          "punitive"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take off, glove."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "take off",
          "take off#English"
        ],
        [
          "glove",
          "glove#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "take off one's gloves"
}