"talk a big game" meaning in All languages combined

See talk a big game on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: talks a big game [present, singular, third-person], talking a big game [participle, present], talked a big game [participle, past], talked a big game [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} talk a big game (third-person singular simple present talks a big game, present participle talking a big game, simple past and past participle talked a big game)
  1. Synonym of talk a good game Synonyms: talk a good game [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-talk_a_big_game-en-verb-C-9M-NX- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "talks a big game",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "talking a big game",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "talked a big game",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "talked a big game",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "talk a big game (third-person singular simple present talks a big game, present participle talking a big game, simple past and past participle talked a big game)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              75,
              91
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2019 January 31, Ian Bogost, “Apple’s Empty Grandstanding About Privacy”, in The Atlantic:",
          "text": "That’s one way to understand Apple’s empty message about privacy. Tim Cook talks a big game, but at the end of the day, his company is allowing the surveillance-capitalism atrocities it claims to oppose.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              78,
              88
            ],
            [
              95,
              103
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2019, 100 gecs, “money machine”, in 1000 gecs:",
          "text": "You think you're so fucking cool? Huh? / You think you're so fucking tough? / You talk a lotta big game for someone with such a small truck",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of talk a good game"
      ],
      "id": "en-talk_a_big_game-en-verb-C-9M-NX-",
      "links": [
        [
          "talk a good game",
          "talk a good game#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "talk a good game"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "talk a big game"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "talks a big game",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "talking a big game",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "talked a big game",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "talked a big game",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "talk a big game (third-person singular simple present talks a big game, present participle talking a big game, simple past and past participle talked a big game)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              75,
              91
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2019 January 31, Ian Bogost, “Apple’s Empty Grandstanding About Privacy”, in The Atlantic:",
          "text": "That’s one way to understand Apple’s empty message about privacy. Tim Cook talks a big game, but at the end of the day, his company is allowing the surveillance-capitalism atrocities it claims to oppose.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              78,
              88
            ],
            [
              95,
              103
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2019, 100 gecs, “money machine”, in 1000 gecs:",
          "text": "You think you're so fucking cool? Huh? / You think you're so fucking tough? / You talk a lotta big game for someone with such a small truck",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of talk a good game"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "talk a good game",
          "talk a good game#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "talk a good game"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "talk a big game"
}

Download raw JSONL data for talk a big game meaning in All languages combined (1.6kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-20 using wiktextract (3dadd05 and f1c2b61). 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.