don't that beat all in English

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

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "don't that beat all?"
      },
      "expansion": "don't that beat all?",
      "name": "en-interj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Canadian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Earl Cooke, Redemption of a Dark Hero, page 26",
          "text": "Don't that beat all? A grown thirty-year-old with the measles!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Expressing great wonder or surprise."
      ],
      "id": "en-don't_that_beat_all-en-intj-oZweR9rG",
      "links": [
        [
          "Canada",
          "Canada"
        ],
        [
          "US",
          "American English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Canada, US, informal) Expressing great wonder or surprise."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "giddy limit"
        },
        {
          "word": "last straw"
        },
        {
          "word": "take the cake"
        },
        {
          "word": "take the biscuit"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "if that don't beat all"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "don't that beat all"
}

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

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "don't that beat all?"
      },
      "expansion": "don't that beat all?",
      "name": "en-interj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "intj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "giddy limit"
    },
    {
      "word": "last straw"
    },
    {
      "word": "take the cake"
    },
    {
      "word": "take the biscuit"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "Canadian English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English interjections",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Earl Cooke, Redemption of a Dark Hero, page 26",
          "text": "Don't that beat all? A grown thirty-year-old with the measles!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Expressing great wonder or surprise."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Canada",
          "Canada"
        ],
        [
          "US",
          "American English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Canada, US, informal) Expressing great wonder or surprise."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "if that don't beat all"
    }
  ],
  "word": "don't that beat all"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). 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.

"don't that beat all" meaning in English

Interjection