"turnip for the book" meaning in All languages combined

{
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "turn up for the book"
      },
      "expansion": "turn up for the book",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "A humorous variation on turn up for the book.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "?"
      },
      "expansion": "turnip for the book",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1974, Gordon Williams, Big Morning Blues, London […]: Hodder and Stoughton, page 102",
          "text": "You've got these Swedes in your office—that was a turnip for the books. Do go on.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Terry Deary, The Savage Stone Age, London: Hippo, page 43",
          "text": "Swedes fired arrows into their corpses, though we don't know why. (This is better than corpses firing arrows into swedes which would be a real turnip for the book.)",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A very unexpected surprise or occurrence."
      ],
      "id": "en-turnip_for_the_book-en-noun-xYrkmlgr",
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "surprise",
          "surprise#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "occurrence",
          "occurrence#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(humorous) A very unexpected surprise or occurrence."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "turnip for the books"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humorous"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "turnip for the book"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "turn up for the book"
      },
      "expansion": "turn up for the book",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "A humorous variation on turn up for the book.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "?"
      },
      "expansion": "turnip for the book",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English humorous terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with unknown or uncertain plurals",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1974, Gordon Williams, Big Morning Blues, London […]: Hodder and Stoughton, page 102",
          "text": "You've got these Swedes in your office—that was a turnip for the books. Do go on.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Terry Deary, The Savage Stone Age, London: Hippo, page 43",
          "text": "Swedes fired arrows into their corpses, though we don't know why. (This is better than corpses firing arrows into swedes which would be a real turnip for the book.)",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A very unexpected surprise or occurrence."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "surprise",
          "surprise#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "occurrence",
          "occurrence#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(humorous) A very unexpected surprise or occurrence."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humorous"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "turnip for the books"
    }
  ],
  "word": "turnip for the book"
}