"more life in a tramp's vest" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "A tramp's vest might be expected to be infested with living things such as fleas.",
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      "expansion": "more life in a tramp's vest (uncountable)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Colin MacFarlane, No Mean Glasgow: Revelations of a Gorbals Guy",
          "text": "We had been used to the patter and banter of the Gorbals and, after a particularly dull conversation with one of our new neighbours, my mother told me that she'd 'seen mair life in a tramp's vest'.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Martyn Johnson, What's Tha Up To Nah?",
          "text": "I'd seen more life in a tramp's vest than I had in this lad, and he just sat on the bike totally unconcerned as I approached him on foot.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used in comparisons to indicate that someone or something is devoid of life or animation."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "life",
          "life#English"
        ],
        [
          "animation",
          "animation#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, slang) Used in comparisons to indicate that someone or something is devoid of life or animation."
      ],
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        "UK",
        "slang",
        "uncountable"
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    }
  ],
  "word": "more life in a tramp's vest"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "A tramp's vest might be expected to be infested with living things such as fleas.",
  "head_templates": [
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      "expansion": "more life in a tramp's vest (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "British English",
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        "English nouns",
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        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Colin MacFarlane, No Mean Glasgow: Revelations of a Gorbals Guy",
          "text": "We had been used to the patter and banter of the Gorbals and, after a particularly dull conversation with one of our new neighbours, my mother told me that she'd 'seen mair life in a tramp's vest'.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Martyn Johnson, What's Tha Up To Nah?",
          "text": "I'd seen more life in a tramp's vest than I had in this lad, and he just sat on the bike totally unconcerned as I approached him on foot.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used in comparisons to indicate that someone or something is devoid of life or animation."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "life",
          "life#English"
        ],
        [
          "animation",
          "animation#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, slang) Used in comparisons to indicate that someone or something is devoid of life or animation."
      ],
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        "UK",
        "slang",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "more life in a tramp's vest"
}