"carry water for" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "carries water for",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carrying water for",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carried water for",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carried water for",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1967, Sarah Gainham, Night falls on the city, page 558",
          "text": "Julie heard a woman's voice saying that she certainly was not going to carry water for any conceited bitches who thought themselves too good for ordinary....",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Barbara Ewing, The Trespass, page 329",
          "text": "For such a caring man she would carry water for the rest of her life: no man of her acquaintance would have done what Edward Cooper did, for a woman.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Larry Bond with James DeFelice, First Team: Angels of Wrath, page 375",
          "text": "\"We won't get another chance to talk, so tell me, deab: is Peter the man to carry water for me between the Israelis and the Palestinians, or should I find another horse for that plow?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Ralph Reed, Dark Horse, page 229",
          "text": "His job was to watch Stanton's back, not carry water for his ex-boss.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To perform menial tasks for; to serve; to assist; to be forced by politics or pragmatism to endorse or promote a belief, individual, or organization that in reality one does not fully support."
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "menial",
          "menial"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic) To perform menial tasks for; to serve; to assist; to be forced by politics or pragmatism to endorse or promote a belief, individual, or organization that in reality one does not fully support."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "carry someone's water"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "joutua tukemaan"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "służyć"
        }
      ]
    }
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      "tags": [
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  "word": "carry water for"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "carries water for",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carrying water for",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carried water for",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carried water for",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "carry someone's water"
    }
  ],
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Translation table header lacks gloss"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1967, Sarah Gainham, Night falls on the city, page 558",
          "text": "Julie heard a woman's voice saying that she certainly was not going to carry water for any conceited bitches who thought themselves too good for ordinary....",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Barbara Ewing, The Trespass, page 329",
          "text": "For such a caring man she would carry water for the rest of her life: no man of her acquaintance would have done what Edward Cooper did, for a woman.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Larry Bond with James DeFelice, First Team: Angels of Wrath, page 375",
          "text": "\"We won't get another chance to talk, so tell me, deab: is Peter the man to carry water for me between the Israelis and the Palestinians, or should I find another horse for that plow?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Ralph Reed, Dark Horse, page 229",
          "text": "His job was to watch Stanton's back, not carry water for his ex-boss.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To perform menial tasks for; to serve; to assist; to be forced by politics or pragmatism to endorse or promote a belief, individual, or organization that in reality one does not fully support."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "menial",
          "menial"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic) To perform menial tasks for; to serve; to assist; to be forced by politics or pragmatism to endorse or promote a belief, individual, or organization that in reality one does not fully support."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
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  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "joutua tukemaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "służyć"
    }
  ],
  "word": "carry water for"
}