"honor in the breach" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "honors in the breach",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "honoring in the breach",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "honored in the breach",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "honored in the breach",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "honor in the breach (third-person singular simple present honors in the breach, present participle honoring in the breach, simple past and past participle honored in the breach)",
      "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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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014 February 21, “Not poles apart”, in The Economist",
          "text": "Many religious precepts are honoured in the breach.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To demonstrate (a rule, law, or policy) by breaking or breaching it."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "demonstrate",
          "demonstrate"
        ],
        [
          "rule",
          "rule"
        ],
        [
          "law",
          "law"
        ],
        [
          "policy",
          "policy"
        ],
        [
          "break",
          "break"
        ],
        [
          "breach",
          "breach"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic, American spelling) To demonstrate (a rule, law, or policy) by breaking or breaching it."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "exception that proves the rule"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "honour in the breach"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "honor in the breach"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "honors in the breach",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "honoring in the breach",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "honored in the breach",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "honored in the breach",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "honor in the breach (third-person singular simple present honors in the breach, present participle honoring in the breach, simple past and past participle honored in the breach)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "exception that proves the rule"
    }
  ],
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        "American English forms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014 February 21, “Not poles apart”, in The Economist",
          "text": "Many religious precepts are honoured in the breach.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To demonstrate (a rule, law, or policy) by breaking or breaching it."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "demonstrate",
          "demonstrate"
        ],
        [
          "rule",
          "rule"
        ],
        [
          "law",
          "law"
        ],
        [
          "policy",
          "policy"
        ],
        [
          "break",
          "break"
        ],
        [
          "breach",
          "breach"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic, American spelling) To demonstrate (a rule, law, or policy) by breaking or breaching it."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
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      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "honour in the breach"
    }
  ],
  "word": "honor in the breach"
}