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"text": "If you want to be a successful business person, you have to look the part.",
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},
{
"text": "We were going to cast him in our new movie but unfortunately he didn't look the part.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2021 February 6, Graham Bean, “Scotland beat England at Twickenham for the first time in 38 years”, in The Scotsman",
"text": "Turner looked assured, picking out his men at the lineouts, while Redpath was seeing plenty of the ball and also looked the part as the Scots probed for opening.",
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"To appear suitable for a particular kind of work, position or role."
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"(idiomatic) To appear suitable for a particular kind of work, position or role."
],
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"word": "dress the part"
},
{
"word": "someone's face doesn't fit"
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"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
"word": "似模似樣"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
"word": "似模似样"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
"word": "有型有格"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
"word": "入型入格"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
"word": "儀表得體"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "yíbiǎo détǐ",
"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
"word": "仪表得体"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
"word": "vaikuttaa sopivalta"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
"word": "avoir la tête de l’emploi"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
"word": "avoir le physique de l’emploi"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
"word": "avoir la gueule de l’emploi"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
"word": "entsprechend aussehen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
"word": "angemessen aussehen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
"word": "passend erscheinen"
},
{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
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"word": "so aussehen"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
"word": "avere il physique du rôle"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "odpowiednio wyglądać"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
"word": "parecer estar à altura"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "výgljadetʹ sootvétstvujušče",
"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "вы́глядеть соотве́тствующе"
},
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
"word": "parecer estar a la altura"
}
]
}
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"word": "look the part"
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{
"text": "We were going to cast him in our new movie but unfortunately he didn't look the part.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2021 February 6, Graham Bean, “Scotland beat England at Twickenham for the first time in 38 years”, in The Scotsman",
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],
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"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
"word": "似模似樣"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
"word": "似模似样"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
"word": "有型有格"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
"word": "入型入格"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
"word": "儀表得體"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yíbiǎo détǐ",
"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
"word": "仪表得体"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
"word": "vaikuttaa sopivalta"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
"word": "avoir la tête de l’emploi"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
"word": "avoir le physique de l’emploi"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
"word": "avoir la gueule de l’emploi"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
"word": "entsprechend aussehen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
"word": "angemessen aussehen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
"word": "passend erscheinen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
"tags": [
"simplified"
],
"word": "so aussehen"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
"word": "avere il physique du rôle"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "odpowiednio wyglądać"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
"word": "parecer estar à altura"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "výgljadetʹ sootvétstvujušče",
"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "вы́глядеть соотве́тствующе"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "appear suitable for a particular kind of work",
"word": "parecer estar a la altura"
}
],
"word": "look the part"
}
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