"break someone's back" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "breaks someone's back",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "breaking someone's back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "broke someone's back",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "broken someone's back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "break<,,broke,broken> someone's back"
      },
      "expansion": "break someone's back (third-person singular simple present breaks someone's back, present participle breaking someone's back, simple past broke someone's back, past participle broken someone's back)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Would it break your back to pay me a compliment once in a while?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Jack White (lyrics and music), “Black Math”, in Elephant, performed by The White Stripes",
          "text": "My books are sitting at the top of the stack now\nThe longer words are really breaking my back now.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To exhaust a person's means or resources; to constitute more than they are reasonably able to do."
      ],
      "id": "en-break_someone's_back-en-verb-UoVuVxk0",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To exhaust a person's means or resources; to constitute more than they are reasonably able to do."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see break, back."
      ],
      "id": "en-break_someone's_back-en-verb-FaYdjQr4",
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        [
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          "break#English"
        ],
        [
          "back",
          "back#English"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "word": "back-breaking"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "word": "break one's back"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "break someone's back"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "breaks someone's back",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "breaking someone's back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "broke someone's back",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "broken someone's back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "break<,,broke,broken> someone's back"
      },
      "expansion": "break someone's back (third-person singular simple present breaks someone's back, present participle breaking someone's back, simple past broke someone's back, past participle broken someone's back)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "back-breaking"
    },
    {
      "word": "break one's back"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Would it break your back to pay me a compliment once in a while?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Jack White (lyrics and music), “Black Math”, in Elephant, performed by The White Stripes",
          "text": "My books are sitting at the top of the stack now\nThe longer words are really breaking my back now.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To exhaust a person's means or resources; to constitute more than they are reasonably able to do."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To exhaust a person's means or resources; to constitute more than they are reasonably able to do."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see break, back."
      ],
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        ],
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          "back",
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        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "break someone's back"
}