"de kat in het donker knijpen" meaning in Dutch

{
  "etymology_text": "Literally, “to pinch the cat in the dark”.",
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      "expansion": "de kat in het donker knijpen",
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      "args": {
        "1": "knijpen"
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  ],
  "lang": "Dutch",
  "lang_code": "nl",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "text": "1829, J. Andriessen, De waarheid in een narrenkleed, of de ernstige studie der Romeinsche geschiedenis op eene luchtige en schertsende wijze behandeld, in den geest van Fokke's boertige reis door Europa, vol. 2, part 1, publ. by A . Kloots, page 39.\nZoo maakte Tiberius een mooi begin, maar hij kneep danig de kat in het donker, daar hij in stilte menige wreedheid beging en zelfs van zijne eigene moeder weinig werks maakte ;",
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      "glosses": [
        "to secretly do harm"
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          "secretly",
          "secretly"
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        [
          "harm",
          "harm"
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/də ˈkɑt ɪn (ɦ)ət ˈdɔŋ.kər ˈknɛi̯.pə(n)/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/də ˈkɑt ɪn ɦɛt ˈdɔŋ.kər ˈknɛi̯.pə(n)/"
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{
  "etymology_text": "Literally, “to pinch the cat in the dark”.",
  "head_templates": [
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      "expansion": "de kat in het donker knijpen",
      "name": "nl-verb"
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "knijpen"
      },
      "name": "nl-conj-see"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Dutch",
  "lang_code": "nl",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "text": "1829, J. Andriessen, De waarheid in een narrenkleed, of de ernstige studie der Romeinsche geschiedenis op eene luchtige en schertsende wijze behandeld, in den geest van Fokke's boertige reis door Europa, vol. 2, part 1, publ. by A . Kloots, page 39.\nZoo maakte Tiberius een mooi begin, maar hij kneep danig de kat in het donker, daar hij in stilte menige wreedheid beging en zelfs van zijne eigene moeder weinig werks maakte ;",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to secretly do harm"
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          "secretly",
          "secretly"
        ],
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          "harm",
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        ]
      ]
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      "ipa": "/də ˈkɑt ɪn (ɦ)ət ˈdɔŋ.kər ˈknɛi̯.pə(n)/"
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