cut off more than one can chew in English

Forms: cuts off more than one can chew [present, singular, third-person], cutting off more than one can chew [participle, present], cut off more than one could chew [participle, past], cut off more than one could chew [past] [Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

Head templates: {{en-verb|cut<,,cut> off more than one can<can,can,could> chew|head=cut off more than one can chew}} cut off more than one can chew (third-person singular simple present cuts off more than one can chew, present participle cutting off more than one can chew, simple past and past participle cut off more than one could chew)

[Show JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cuts off more than one can chew",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cutting off more than one can chew",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cut off more than one could chew",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cut off more than one could chew",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cut<,,cut> off more than one can<can,can,could> chew",
        "head": "cut off more than one can chew"
      },
      "expansion": "cut off more than one can chew (third-person singular simple present cuts off more than one can chew, present participle cutting off more than one can chew, simple past and past participle cut off more than one could chew)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of bite off more than one can chew"
      ],
      "id": "en-cut_off_more_than_one_can_chew-en-verb-Rbwc2--T",
      "links": [
        [
          "bite off more than one can chew",
          "bite off more than one can chew#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(less common) Synonym of bite off more than one can chew"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "bite off more than one can chew"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncommon"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cut off more than one can chew"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cuts off more than one can chew",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cutting off more than one can chew",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cut off more than one could chew",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cut off more than one could chew",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cut<,,cut> off more than one can<can,can,could> chew",
        "head": "cut off more than one can chew"
      },
      "expansion": "cut off more than one can chew (third-person singular simple present cuts off more than one can chew, present participle cutting off more than one can chew, simple past and past participle cut off more than one could chew)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of bite off more than one can chew"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bite off more than one can chew",
          "bite off more than one can chew#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(less common) Synonym of bite off more than one can chew"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "bite off more than one can chew"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncommon"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cut off more than one can chew"
}

Download raw JSONL data for cut off more than one can chew meaning in English (1.3kB)

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.

"cut off more than one can chew" meaning in English

Verb