"paarse krokodil" meaning in Dutch

{
  "etymology_text": "Literally, “purple crocodile”. From a 2005 television commercial by Dutch insurance company OHRA, in which a swimming bath employee refuses to return a lost inflatable purple crocodile to its owners unless they comply with several pointless lost and found regulations, even though their object is sitting right next to him.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "paarse krokodillen",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m",
        "2": "-en",
        "3": "-",
        "g2": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "paarse krokodil m or f (plural paarse krokodillen)",
      "name": "nl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "paar‧se"
  ],
  "lang": "Dutch",
  "lang_code": "nl",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Dutch entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Netherlands Dutch",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "A practical, can-do atmosphere looms — the people of what has come to be called the Veere advisory group want to \"solve problems\". Taking on red tape, laying bare where bureaucracy becomes suffocating. To fix the Netherlands on Sunday afternoons, that kind of idea.",
          "ref": "2016, Sheila Sitalsing, Mark. Portret van een premier, Prometheus",
          "text": "Er hangt een praktische, doenerige sfeer — de mensen van wat het Veereberaad is gaan heten willen ‘problemen oplossen’. De paarse krokodil te lijf, blootleggen waar de bureaucratie verstikkend wordt. Op zondagmiddagen Nederland fiksen, dat idee.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "inordinate bureaucracy, red-tapism"
      ],
      "id": "en-paarse_krokodil-nl-noun-BEmesWlI",
      "links": [
        [
          "inordinate",
          "inordinate#English"
        ],
        [
          "bureaucracy",
          "bureaucracy#English"
        ],
        [
          "red-tapism",
          "red-tapism#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Netherlands, idiomatic) inordinate bureaucracy, red-tapism"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Netherlands",
        "feminine",
        "idiomatic",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌpaːr.sə kroː.koːˈdɪl/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "paarse krokodil"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Literally, “purple crocodile”. From a 2005 television commercial by Dutch insurance company OHRA, in which a swimming bath employee refuses to return a lost inflatable purple crocodile to its owners unless they comply with several pointless lost and found regulations, even though their object is sitting right next to him.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "paarse krokodillen",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m",
        "2": "-en",
        "3": "-",
        "g2": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "paarse krokodil m or f (plural paarse krokodillen)",
      "name": "nl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "paar‧se"
  ],
  "lang": "Dutch",
  "lang_code": "nl",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Dutch entries with incorrect language header",
        "Dutch feminine nouns",
        "Dutch idioms",
        "Dutch lemmas",
        "Dutch masculine nouns",
        "Dutch multiword terms",
        "Dutch nouns",
        "Dutch nouns with multiple genders",
        "Dutch nouns with plural in -en",
        "Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Dutch terms with quotations",
        "Netherlands Dutch"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "A practical, can-do atmosphere looms — the people of what has come to be called the Veere advisory group want to \"solve problems\". Taking on red tape, laying bare where bureaucracy becomes suffocating. To fix the Netherlands on Sunday afternoons, that kind of idea.",
          "ref": "2016, Sheila Sitalsing, Mark. Portret van een premier, Prometheus",
          "text": "Er hangt een praktische, doenerige sfeer — de mensen van wat het Veereberaad is gaan heten willen ‘problemen oplossen’. De paarse krokodil te lijf, blootleggen waar de bureaucratie verstikkend wordt. Op zondagmiddagen Nederland fiksen, dat idee.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "inordinate bureaucracy, red-tapism"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "inordinate",
          "inordinate#English"
        ],
        [
          "bureaucracy",
          "bureaucracy#English"
        ],
        [
          "red-tapism",
          "red-tapism#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Netherlands, idiomatic) inordinate bureaucracy, red-tapism"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Netherlands",
        "feminine",
        "idiomatic",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌpaːr.sə kroː.koːˈdɪl/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "paarse krokodil"
}