"mean business" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "means business",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meaning business",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meant business",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meant business",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1895, William Chambers, Robert Chambers, Chambers's journal",
          "text": "Say in a week from now, I will undertake to deliver this most marvellous masterpiece, if 'Look here, 'Tony, I mean business, if you don't.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 102",
          "text": "Lorena Bobbit only did what men do to each other all the time: She showed an asshole she meant business.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Armando T. Atienza, Shrewd Business Tactics",
          "text": "He projects his concern to all employees and he means business when he says the “buck stops here”.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be serious, especially where achieving a specific end against opposition is concerned."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "serious",
          "serious"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, used to convey serious intent) To be serious, especially where achieving a specific end against opposition is concerned."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "used to convey serious intent"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "olla tosissaan"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "ne pas plaisanter"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "être sérieux"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "nie żartować"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "no andarse con chiquitas"
        }
      ]
    }
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  "word": "mean business"
}

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    {
      "form": "means business",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meaning business",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meant business",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meant business",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "mean<,,meant> business"
      },
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    }
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        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Translation table header lacks gloss"
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        {
          "ref": "1895, William Chambers, Robert Chambers, Chambers's journal",
          "text": "Say in a week from now, I will undertake to deliver this most marvellous masterpiece, if 'Look here, 'Tony, I mean business, if you don't.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 102",
          "text": "Lorena Bobbit only did what men do to each other all the time: She showed an asshole she meant business.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Armando T. Atienza, Shrewd Business Tactics",
          "text": "He projects his concern to all employees and he means business when he says the “buck stops here”.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be serious, especially where achieving a specific end against opposition is concerned."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "serious",
          "serious"
        ]
      ],
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        "(idiomatic, used to convey serious intent) To be serious, especially where achieving a specific end against opposition is concerned."
      ],
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        "used to convey serious intent"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
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      "tags": [
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "olla tosissaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "ne pas plaisanter"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "être sérieux"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "nie żartować"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "no andarse con chiquitas"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mean business"
}