"mail it in" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mails it in",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mailing it in",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mailed it in",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mailed it in",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "mail it in (third-person singular simple present mails it in, present participle mailing it in, simple past and past participle mailed it in)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "79 21",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "77 23",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"in\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with placeholder \"it\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "70 30",
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          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "87 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mail, it, in."
      ],
      "id": "en-mail_it_in-en-verb-ACrj12wT",
      "links": [
        [
          "mail",
          "mail#English"
        ],
        [
          "it",
          "it#English"
        ],
        [
          "in",
          "in#English"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "word": "mailed-in"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "word": "phone in"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with placeholder \"it\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008 January 11, Bill Keveney, “Idol tries to get its groove back”, in USA Today, page 1A:",
          "text": "\"I do think the judges mailed it in during Season 6, relative to previous years,\" Welton says. \"Simon needs to be nastier. […]\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 January/February, Keith Bellows, “Go, But Go Green”, in National Geographic, volume 26, number 1, page 22:",
          "text": "So when you have to write two columns a week that are going to be read by a lot of people around the world, you can't just mail it in. You're thinking all the time.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010 May 25, Joe Cowley, “Crunch time comes early; Sox 7 Indians 2; Peavy^s point: Next month is make or break”, in The Chicago Sun-Times:",
          "text": "Listen, we're not mailing it in, we're trying to get better.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To deliver a performance without commitment or effort, with lackluster results."
      ],
      "id": "en-mail_it_in-en-verb-ijIxZPtC",
      "links": [
        [
          "performance",
          "performance"
        ],
        [
          "commitment",
          "commitment"
        ],
        [
          "effort",
          "effort"
        ],
        [
          "lackluster",
          "lackluster"
        ],
        [
          "result",
          "result"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To deliver a performance without commitment or effort, with lackluster results."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mail it in"
}

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    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs formed with \"in\"",
    "English terms with placeholder \"it\"",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mails it in",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mailing it in",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mailed it in",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mailed it in",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "mail it in (third-person singular simple present mails it in, present participle mailing it in, simple past and past participle mailed it in)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "mailed-in"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mail, it, in."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mail",
          "mail#English"
        ],
        [
          "it",
          "it#English"
        ],
        [
          "in",
          "in#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008 January 11, Bill Keveney, “Idol tries to get its groove back”, in USA Today, page 1A:",
          "text": "\"I do think the judges mailed it in during Season 6, relative to previous years,\" Welton says. \"Simon needs to be nastier. […]\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 January/February, Keith Bellows, “Go, But Go Green”, in National Geographic, volume 26, number 1, page 22:",
          "text": "So when you have to write two columns a week that are going to be read by a lot of people around the world, you can't just mail it in. You're thinking all the time.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010 May 25, Joe Cowley, “Crunch time comes early; Sox 7 Indians 2; Peavy^s point: Next month is make or break”, in The Chicago Sun-Times:",
          "text": "Listen, we're not mailing it in, we're trying to get better.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To deliver a performance without commitment or effort, with lackluster results."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "performance",
          "performance"
        ],
        [
          "commitment",
          "commitment"
        ],
        [
          "effort",
          "effort"
        ],
        [
          "lackluster",
          "lackluster"
        ],
        [
          "result",
          "result"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To deliver a performance without commitment or effort, with lackluster results."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "phone in"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mail it in"
}