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{
"form": "wastes breath",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wasting breath",
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"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "wasted breath",
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}
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"lang": "English",
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"pos": "verb",
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{
"ref": "1827, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 24, in The Prairie",
"text": "Middleton and Paul saw no use in wasting their breath in remonstrances against this proposal.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1906, John Kendrick Bangs, chapter 1, in R. Holmes & Co.",
"text": "Why waste breath saying self-evident things?",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2009 May 19, “Akshay jealous of Sanjay's tattoos?”, in Times of India, retrieved 2009-06-14",
"text": "\"Please don't waste your breath asking me ridiculous questions,\" he says.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To speak in a manner which is needless or futile; in discussion or argument to make points which are not appreciated or heeded."
],
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],
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"futile",
"futile"
],
[
"discussion",
"discussion"
],
[
"argument",
"argument"
],
[
"appreciate",
"appreciate"
],
[
"heed",
"heed"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) To speak in a manner which is needless or futile; in discussion or argument to make points which are not appreciated or heeded."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "like talking to a wall"
},
{
"word": "waste of breath"
}
],
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"translations": [
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "datark xosel",
"sense": "to speak futilely",
"word": "դատարկ խոսել"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "to speak futilely",
"word": "嘥氣"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "saai¹ hei³",
"sense": "to speak futilely",
"word": "嘥气"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to speak futilely",
"word": "白說"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "báishuō",
"sense": "to speak futilely",
"word": "白说"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to speak futilely",
"word": "puhua joutavia"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to speak futilely",
"word": "perdre sa salive"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to speak futilely",
"word": "gaspiller sa salive"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to speak futilely",
"word": "gastar saliva"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to speak futilely",
"word": "Atem verschwenden"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to speak futilely",
"word": "eyða orku"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to speak futilely",
"word": "eyða orku í"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to speak futilely",
"word": "sprecar fiato"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to speak futilely",
"word": "szkoda słów"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to speak futilely",
"word": "gastar saliva"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "govorítʹ na véter",
"sense": "to speak futilely",
"word": "говори́ть на ве́тер"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to speak futilely",
"word": "gastar saliva"
}
]
}
],
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"tags": [
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],
"word": "waste breath"
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"singular",
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},
{
"form": "wasting breath",
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"present"
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{
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"past"
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{
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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"word": "like talking to a wall"
},
{
"word": "waste of breath"
}
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"English verbs",
"Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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"ref": "1827, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 24, in The Prairie",
"text": "Middleton and Paul saw no use in wasting their breath in remonstrances against this proposal.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1906, John Kendrick Bangs, chapter 1, in R. Holmes & Co.",
"text": "Why waste breath saying self-evident things?",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2009 May 19, “Akshay jealous of Sanjay's tattoos?”, in Times of India, retrieved 2009-06-14",
"text": "\"Please don't waste your breath asking me ridiculous questions,\" he says.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To speak in a manner which is needless or futile; in discussion or argument to make points which are not appreciated or heeded."
],
"links": [
[
"speak",
"speak"
],
[
"needless",
"needless"
],
[
"futile",
"futile"
],
[
"discussion",
"discussion"
],
[
"argument",
"argument"
],
[
"appreciate",
"appreciate"
],
[
"heed",
"heed"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) To speak in a manner which is needless or futile; in discussion or argument to make points which are not appreciated or heeded."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
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"tags": [
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"translations": [
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "datark xosel",
"sense": "to speak futilely",
"word": "դատարկ խոսել"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "to speak futilely",
"word": "嘥氣"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "saai¹ hei³",
"sense": "to speak futilely",
"word": "嘥气"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to speak futilely",
"word": "白說"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "báishuō",
"sense": "to speak futilely",
"word": "白说"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to speak futilely",
"word": "puhua joutavia"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to speak futilely",
"word": "perdre sa salive"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to speak futilely",
"word": "gaspiller sa salive"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to speak futilely",
"word": "gastar saliva"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to speak futilely",
"word": "Atem verschwenden"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to speak futilely",
"word": "eyða orku"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to speak futilely",
"word": "eyða orku í"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to speak futilely",
"word": "sprecar fiato"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to speak futilely",
"word": "szkoda słów"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to speak futilely",
"word": "gastar saliva"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "govorítʹ na véter",
"sense": "to speak futilely",
"word": "говори́ть на ве́тер"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to speak futilely",
"word": "gastar saliva"
}
],
"word": "waste breath"
}
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