See false alarm in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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},
{
"ref": "1913, Rex Ellingwood Beach, chapter 5, in The Iron Trail:",
"text": "\"I had a good job, putting in a power plant for his nibs\"—he indicated the retreating Gordon with a disrespectful jerk of the thumb—\"but I quit [...] Do you think I'd work for this four-flusher if you were in the country?\" [...]\n\"You think Gordon is a false alarm?\"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1921, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 4, in Jill the Reckless:",
"text": "\"I only came over here to see that darned false alarm of a play of mine put on.\"",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A person who pretends to be more accomplished or a thing that seems to be of higher quality than is later found to be the case."
],
"links": [
[
"person",
"person"
],
[
"pretend",
"pretend"
],
[
"accomplished",
"accomplished"
],
[
"thing",
"thing"
],
[
"quality",
"quality"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic, idiomatic) A person who pretends to be more accomplished or a thing that seems to be of higher quality than is later found to be the case."
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
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"audio": "en-au-false alarm.ogg",
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"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "warning sound that turns out to be erroneous",
"word": "虛驚"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xūjīng",
"sense": "warning sound that turns out to be erroneous",
"word": "虚惊"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "warning sound that turns out to be erroneous",
"word": "誤警"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "wùjǐng",
"sense": "warning sound that turns out to be erroneous",
"word": "误警"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "warning sound that turns out to be erroneous",
"word": "planý poplach"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "warning sound that turns out to be erroneous",
"word": "vals alarm"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "warning sound that turns out to be erroneous",
"word": "väärä hälytys"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "warning sound that turns out to be erroneous",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fausse alarme"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "warning sound that turns out to be erroneous",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fausse alerte"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "warning sound that turns out to be erroneous",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "falsa alarma"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "warning sound that turns out to be erroneous",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Fehlalarm"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "warning sound that turns out to be erroneous",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Falschmeldung"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "warning sound that turns out to be erroneous",
"word": "téves riasztás"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "warning sound that turns out to be erroneous",
"word": "hamis riasztás"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "warning sound that turns out to be erroneous",
"word": "vakriasztás"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "warning sound that turns out to be erroneous",
"word": "alarm palsu"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "warning sound that turns out to be erroneous",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "falso allarme"
},
{
"alt": "きょほう",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kyohō",
"sense": "warning sound that turns out to be erroneous",
"word": "虚報"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "warning sound that turns out to be erroneous",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fałszywy alarm"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "warning sound that turns out to be erroneous",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "alarmă falsă"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lóžnaja trevóga",
"sense": "warning sound that turns out to be erroneous",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ло́жная трево́га"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "warning sound that turns out to be erroneous",
"word": "lažni alarm"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "warning sound that turns out to be erroneous",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "falsa alarma"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "warning sound that turns out to be erroneous",
"word": "falskt alarm"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "warning sound that turns out to be erroneous",
"word": "tibadbad"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "warning sound that turns out to be erroneous",
"word": "yanlış alarm"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "warning sound that turns out to be erroneous",
"word": "báo động giả"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "thing or occurrence initially causing fear, etc. but subsequently seen to be no cause for concern",
"word": "虛驚"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xūjīng",
"sense": "thing or occurrence initially causing fear, etc. but subsequently seen to be no cause for concern",
"word": "虚惊"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "thing or occurrence initially causing fear, etc. but subsequently seen to be no cause for concern",
"word": "誤警"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "wùjǐng",
"sense": "thing or occurrence initially causing fear, etc. but subsequently seen to be no cause for concern",
"word": "误警"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "thing or occurrence initially causing fear, etc. but subsequently seen to be no cause for concern",
"word": "planý poplach"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "thing or occurrence initially causing fear, etc. but subsequently seen to be no cause for concern",
"word": "falešný poplach"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "thing or occurrence initially causing fear, etc. but subsequently seen to be no cause for concern",
"word": "väärä hälytys"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "thing or occurrence initially causing fear, etc. but subsequently seen to be no cause for concern",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fausse alarme"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "thing or occurrence initially causing fear, etc. but subsequently seen to be no cause for concern",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Fehlalarm"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "thing or occurrence initially causing fear, etc. but subsequently seen to be no cause for concern",
"word": "vaklárma"
},
{
"alt": "きょほう",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kyohō",
"sense": "thing or occurrence initially causing fear, etc. but subsequently seen to be no cause for concern",
"word": "虚報"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "thing or occurrence initially causing fear, etc. but subsequently seen to be no cause for concern",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "alarmă falsă"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lóžnaja trevóga",
"sense": "thing or occurrence initially causing fear, etc. but subsequently seen to be no cause for concern",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ло́жная трево́га"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "thing or occurrence initially causing fear, etc. but subsequently seen to be no cause for concern",
"word": "falskt alarm"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "thing or occurrence initially causing fear, etc. but subsequently seen to be no cause for concern",
"word": "tibadbad"
}
],
"word": "false alarm"
}
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