See wash its face on Wiktionary
{ "forms": [ { "form": "washes its face", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "washing its face", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "washed its face", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "washed its face", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "*" }, "expansion": "wash its face (third-person singular simple present washes its face, present participle washing its face, simple past and past participle washed its face)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "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 terms with placeholder \"it\"", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2014, Mark Kermode, Hatchet Job: Love Movies, Hate Critics, page 259:", "text": "At a cost of around $130 million, the film needed to take at least $260 worldwide to wash its face at the box-office.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2017, Tim Walker, Smoke Over Malibu, page 115:", "text": "The Axeman movie had barely washed its face at the box office, and was already expected to suffer a reboot.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To pay for itself; to make enough revenue to cover the costs of its production." ], "id": "en-wash_its_face-en-verb-UoPFTod7", "links": [ [ "pay for itself", "pay for itself" ], [ "revenue", "revenue" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(informal) To pay for itself; to make enough revenue to cover the costs of its production." ], "tags": [ "informal" ] } ], "word": "wash its face" }
{ "forms": [ { "form": "washes its face", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "washing its face", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "washed its face", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "washed its face", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "*" }, "expansion": "wash its face (third-person singular simple present washes its face, present participle washing its face, simple past and past participle washed its face)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English entries with incorrect language header", "English informal terms", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English terms with placeholder \"it\"", "English terms with quotations", "English verbs", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Quotation templates to be cleaned" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2014, Mark Kermode, Hatchet Job: Love Movies, Hate Critics, page 259:", "text": "At a cost of around $130 million, the film needed to take at least $260 worldwide to wash its face at the box-office.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2017, Tim Walker, Smoke Over Malibu, page 115:", "text": "The Axeman movie had barely washed its face at the box office, and was already expected to suffer a reboot.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To pay for itself; to make enough revenue to cover the costs of its production." ], "links": [ [ "pay for itself", "pay for itself" ], [ "revenue", "revenue" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(informal) To pay for itself; to make enough revenue to cover the costs of its production." ], "tags": [ "informal" ] } ], "word": "wash its face" }
Download raw JSONL data for wash its face 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 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). 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.