"be at the plague" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "is at the plague",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "being at the plague",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "was at the plague",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "been at the plague",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "1": "be<is,being,was,been> at the plague"
      },
      "expansion": "be at the plague (third-person singular simple present is at the plague, present participle being at the plague, simple past was at the plague, past participle been at the plague)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1748, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random:",
          "text": "One of a hundred a year, or so, is all I wish:—I would not be at the plague of paying land-tax for a larger.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:",
          "text": "I am a man of few word but I am laird at hame, as weel as in the field; deil a brute or body about my house but I can manage when I like, except Rory Bean, my powny; but I can seldom be at the plague, an it binna when my bluid's up.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be bothered; to make the effort to do something."
      ],
      "id": "en-be_at_the_plague-en-verb-a-Uys-ln",
      "links": [
        [
          "be bothered",
          "be bothered"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, idiomatic) To be bothered; to make the effort to do something."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "be at the plague"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "is at the plague",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "being at the plague",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "was at the plague",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "been at the plague",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "be<is,being,was,been> at the plague"
      },
      "expansion": "be at the plague (third-person singular simple present is at the plague, present participle being at the plague, simple past was at the plague, past participle been at the plague)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1748, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random:",
          "text": "One of a hundred a year, or so, is all I wish:—I would not be at the plague of paying land-tax for a larger.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:",
          "text": "I am a man of few word but I am laird at hame, as weel as in the field; deil a brute or body about my house but I can manage when I like, except Rory Bean, my powny; but I can seldom be at the plague, an it binna when my bluid's up.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be bothered; to make the effort to do something."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "be bothered",
          "be bothered"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, idiomatic) To be bothered; to make the effort to do something."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "be at the plague"
}