See two left feet on Wiktionary
{ "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "p" }, "expansion": "two left feet pl (plural only)", "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" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "English pluralia tantum", "parents": [ "Pluralia tantum", "Nouns", "Lemmas" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Entries with translation boxes", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Finnish translations", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with German translations", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Hungarian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Mandarin translations", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Swedish translations", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "coordinate_terms": [ { "word": "two left hands" } ], "examples": [ { "text": "He should stay off the dance floor with his two left feet.", "type": "example" }, { "ref": "1985 April 13, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 13:", "text": "2 shy 4 pickups. 2 flip 4 potlucks. 2 left feet at bars. But fun.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Clumsiness, especially at dancing or in sports involving kicking a ball." ], "id": "en-two_left_feet-en-noun-XB6L1X4I", "links": [ [ "Clumsiness", "clumsiness" ], [ "dancing", "dancing" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(idiomatic) Clumsiness, especially at dancing or in sports involving kicking a ball." ], "tags": [ "idiomatic", "plural", "plural-only" ], "translations": [ { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "bènshǒubènjiǎo", "sense": "exhibiting clumsiness", "word": "笨手笨脚" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "exhibiting clumsiness", "word": "kaksi vasenta jalkaa" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "exhibiting clumsiness", "word": "(avoir) deux pieds gauches" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "exhibiting clumsiness", "word": "zwei linke Füße" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "exhibiting clumsiness", "tags": [ "adjective" ], "word": "kétballábas" }, { "code": "pt", "english": "to have two left feet", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "exhibiting clumsiness", "word": "ter dois pés esquerdos" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "sense": "exhibiting clumsiness", "word": "косола́пый adj" }, { "code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "exhibiting clumsiness", "word": "två vänsterfötter" } ] } ], "sounds": [ { "audio": "En-au-two left feet.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c1/En-au-two_left_feet.ogg/En-au-two_left_feet.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/En-au-two_left_feet.ogg" } ], "word": "two left feet" }
{ "coordinate_terms": [ { "word": "two left hands" } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "p" }, "expansion": "two left feet pl (plural only)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English entries with incorrect language header", "English idioms", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nouns", "English pluralia tantum", "English terms with quotations", "English terms with usage examples", "Entries with translation boxes", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Terms with Finnish translations", "Terms with German translations", "Terms with Hungarian translations", "Terms with Mandarin translations", "Terms with Portuguese translations", "Terms with Swedish translations" ], "examples": [ { "text": "He should stay off the dance floor with his two left feet.", "type": "example" }, { "ref": "1985 April 13, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 13:", "text": "2 shy 4 pickups. 2 flip 4 potlucks. 2 left feet at bars. But fun.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Clumsiness, especially at dancing or in sports involving kicking a ball." ], "links": [ [ "Clumsiness", "clumsiness" ], [ "dancing", "dancing" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(idiomatic) Clumsiness, especially at dancing or in sports involving kicking a ball." ], "tags": [ "idiomatic", "plural", "plural-only" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "audio": "En-au-two left feet.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c1/En-au-two_left_feet.ogg/En-au-two_left_feet.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/En-au-two_left_feet.ogg" } ], "translations": [ { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "bènshǒubènjiǎo", "sense": "exhibiting clumsiness", "word": "笨手笨脚" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "exhibiting clumsiness", "word": "kaksi vasenta jalkaa" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "exhibiting clumsiness", "word": "(avoir) deux pieds gauches" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "exhibiting clumsiness", "word": "zwei linke Füße" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "exhibiting clumsiness", "tags": [ "adjective" ], "word": "kétballábas" }, { "code": "pt", "english": "to have two left feet", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "exhibiting clumsiness", "word": "ter dois pés esquerdos" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "sense": "exhibiting clumsiness", "word": "косола́пый adj" }, { "code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "exhibiting clumsiness", "word": "två vänsterfötter" } ], "word": "two left feet" }
Download raw JSONL data for two left feet meaning in All languages combined (2.5kB)
{ "called_from": "form_description/20250107", "msg": "Form tags without form: desc='plural plural-only', tagsets=[('plural', 'plural-only')]", "path": [ "two left feet" ], "section": "English", "subsection": "noun", "title": "two left feet", "trace": "" }
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-21 using wiktextract (7c21d10 and f2e72e5). 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.