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{
"form": "knocks it off",
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"singular",
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},
{
"form": "knocking it off",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
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},
{
"form": "knocked it off",
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{
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"pos": "verb",
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"categories": [],
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{
"text": "Would you two please knock it off with the shouting? I'm trying to sleep.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cease doing something, particulary annoying or unpleasant; to desist."
],
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"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial, chiefly imperative, idiomatic) To cease doing something, particulary annoying or unpleasant; to desist."
],
"tags": [
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"imperative"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to stop doing something",
"word": "arrêter"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to stop doing something",
"word": "kātirawhe"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zavjazyvatʹ",
"sense": "to stop doing something",
"word": "завязывать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "končatʹ",
"sense": "to stop doing something",
"word": "кончать"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to stop doing something",
"word": "basta ya"
}
]
}
],
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"tags": [
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"word": "knock it off"
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"text": "Knock it off! This is the last time I'm telling you!",
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"Cease doing something, particularly annoying or unpleasant; desist."
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"word": "knock off"
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"word": "cut it out"
},
{
"word": "give it a break"
}
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"form": "knocked it off",
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],
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"To cease doing something, particulary annoying or unpleasant; to desist."
],
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"annoying",
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[
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"(colloquial, chiefly imperative, idiomatic) To cease doing something, particulary annoying or unpleasant; to desist."
],
"tags": [
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"idiomatic",
"imperative"
]
}
],
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"tags": [
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"translations": [
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to stop doing something",
"word": "arrêter"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to stop doing something",
"word": "kātirawhe"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zavjazyvatʹ",
"sense": "to stop doing something",
"word": "завязывать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "končatʹ",
"sense": "to stop doing something",
"word": "кончать"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to stop doing something",
"word": "basta ya"
}
],
"word": "knock it off"
}
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"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English phrasal verbs",
"English phrasal verbs with particle (off)",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with placeholder \"it\"",
"English verbs"
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],
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"text": "Knock it off! This is the last time I'm telling you!",
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],
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"Cease doing something, particularly annoying or unpleasant; desist."
],
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"cease"
],
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"annoying"
],
[
"unpleasant",
"unpleasant"
],
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"desist"
]
],
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"word": "cut it out"
},
{
"word": "give it a break"
}
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}
],
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/En-au-knock_it_off.ogg",
"tags": [
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],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
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],
"word": "knock it off"
}
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