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"forms": [
{
"form": "comes to nothing",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "coming to nothing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "came to nothing",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
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]
}
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},
"expansion": "come to nothing (third-person singular simple present comes to nothing, present participle coming to nothing, simple past came to nothing, past participle come to nothing)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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"Entry maintenance"
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},
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"name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
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}
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{
"text": "The Bank of England's anti-inflation efforts will come to nothing if the US Federal Reserve refuse to join in the plan.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2022 May 18, Peter Robinson, “Rail freight: innovations... and failures”, in RAIL, number 957, page 54, photo caption",
"text": "Yet another road/railer trial that came to nothing.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To fail completely; to have no result."
],
"id": "en-come_to_nothing-en-verb-gipgSfGG",
"links": [
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"fail",
"fail"
],
[
"result",
"result"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) To fail completely; to have no result."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "come to nought"
},
{
"tags": [
"slang",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "die in the ass"
},
{
"tags": [
"slang",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "go to shit"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "失敗"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shībài",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "失败"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "化為烏有"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "huàwéiwūyǒu",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "化为乌有"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bùliǎoliǎozhī",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "不了了之"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "毫無結果"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "háowú jiéguǒ",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "毫无结果"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "přijít vniveč"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "mennä hukkaan"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "ne servir à rien"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "im Sande verlaufen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "es zu nichts bringen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "zu nichts führen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "füstbe megy"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "kútba esik"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "abortar"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "pereō"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "takahē"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ni k čemú ne privestí",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "ни к чему́ не привести́"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "no servir para nada"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "quedar en nada"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "quedar en agua de borrajas"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "salir huero"
}
]
}
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"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "come to nothing"
}
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"tags": [
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"singular",
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},
{
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"tags": [
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"present"
]
},
{
"form": "came to nothing",
"tags": [
"past"
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},
{
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"past"
]
}
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},
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"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
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"English idioms",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English verbs",
"Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations"
],
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{
"text": "The Bank of England's anti-inflation efforts will come to nothing if the US Federal Reserve refuse to join in the plan.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2022 May 18, Peter Robinson, “Rail freight: innovations... and failures”, in RAIL, number 957, page 54, photo caption",
"text": "Yet another road/railer trial that came to nothing.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To fail completely; to have no result."
],
"links": [
[
"fail",
"fail"
],
[
"result",
"result"
]
],
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"(idiomatic) To fail completely; to have no result."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
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"tags": [
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}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "come to nought"
},
{
"tags": [
"slang",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "die in the ass"
},
{
"tags": [
"slang",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "go to shit"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "失敗"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shībài",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "失败"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "化為烏有"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "huàwéiwūyǒu",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "化为乌有"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bùliǎoliǎozhī",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "不了了之"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "毫無結果"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "háowú jiéguǒ",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "毫无结果"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "přijít vniveč"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "mennä hukkaan"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "ne servir à rien"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "im Sande verlaufen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "es zu nichts bringen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "zu nichts führen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "füstbe megy"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "kútba esik"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "abortar"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "pereō"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "takahē"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ni k čemú ne privestí",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "ни к чему́ не привести́"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "no servir para nada"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "quedar en nada"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "quedar en agua de borrajas"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "fail; have no result",
"word": "salir huero"
}
],
"word": "come to nothing"
}
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