See wouldn't be seen dead on Wiktionary
{ "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "verb" }, "expansion": "wouldn't be seen dead", "name": "head" } ], "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 negative polarity items", "parents": [ "Negative polarity items", "Terms by semantic function" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1916, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 1, in Uneasy Money:", "text": "I really don't want to buy anything. You seem by bad luck to be stocked up with just the sort of things I wouldn't be seen dead in a ditch with. I can't stand rubber rings, never could. I'm not really keen on buttonhooks.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2012, Christopher Brookmyre, One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night:", "text": "He'd seen an item about the resort on TV, though he couldn't remember whether it had been Tomorrow's World, Holiday or Eurotrash. What he could remember was swearing he wouldn't be seen dead in the place", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To find incredibly horrifying; embarrassing or otherwise entirely unsuitable for oneself." ], "id": "en-wouldn't_be_seen_dead-en-verb-wD77WzDI", "links": [ [ "horrifying", "horrifying" ], [ "embarrassing", "embarrassing" ], [ "unsuitable", "unsuitable" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(idiomatic) To find incredibly horrifying; embarrassing or otherwise entirely unsuitable for oneself." ], "tags": [ "idiomatic" ] } ], "word": "wouldn't be seen dead" }
{ "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "verb" }, "expansion": "wouldn't be seen dead", "name": "head" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English entries with incorrect language header", "English idioms", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English negative polarity items", "English terms with quotations", "English verbs", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Quotation templates to be cleaned" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1916, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 1, in Uneasy Money:", "text": "I really don't want to buy anything. You seem by bad luck to be stocked up with just the sort of things I wouldn't be seen dead in a ditch with. I can't stand rubber rings, never could. I'm not really keen on buttonhooks.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2012, Christopher Brookmyre, One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night:", "text": "He'd seen an item about the resort on TV, though he couldn't remember whether it had been Tomorrow's World, Holiday or Eurotrash. What he could remember was swearing he wouldn't be seen dead in the place", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To find incredibly horrifying; embarrassing or otherwise entirely unsuitable for oneself." ], "links": [ [ "horrifying", "horrifying" ], [ "embarrassing", "embarrassing" ], [ "unsuitable", "unsuitable" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(idiomatic) To find incredibly horrifying; embarrassing or otherwise entirely unsuitable for oneself." ], "tags": [ "idiomatic" ] } ], "word": "wouldn't be seen dead" }
Download raw JSONL data for wouldn't be seen dead meaning in All languages combined (1.5kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). 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.