one of His Majesty's bad bargains in English

[Show JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "etymology_text": "Suggesting that the soldier is not worth the pay he receives.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "!",
        "head": "one of His Majesty's bad bargains"
      },
      "expansion": "one of His Majesty's bad bargains (plural not attested)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English nouns with unattested plurals",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An incapable (sick, etc) or incompetent soldier."
      ],
      "id": "en-one_of_His_Majesty's_bad_bargains-en-noun-JAn29Pf7",
      "links": [
        [
          "incapable",
          "incapable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, idiomatic, rare) An incapable (sick, etc) or incompetent soldier."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Queen's hard bargain"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "idiomatic",
        "no-plural",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-one of His Majesty's bad bargains.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e4/En-au-one_of_His_Majesty%27s_bad_bargains.ogg/En-au-one_of_His_Majesty%27s_bad_bargains.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/En-au-one_of_His_Majesty%27s_bad_bargains.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "one of His Majesty's bad bargains"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "etymology_text": "Suggesting that the soldier is not worth the pay he receives.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "!",
        "head": "one of His Majesty's bad bargains"
      },
      "expansion": "one of His Majesty's bad bargains (plural not attested)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with unattested plurals",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An incapable (sick, etc) or incompetent soldier."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "incapable",
          "incapable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, idiomatic, rare) An incapable (sick, etc) or incompetent soldier."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "idiomatic",
        "no-plural",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-one of His Majesty's bad bargains.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e4/En-au-one_of_His_Majesty%27s_bad_bargains.ogg/En-au-one_of_His_Majesty%27s_bad_bargains.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/En-au-one_of_His_Majesty%27s_bad_bargains.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Queen's hard bargain"
    }
  ],
  "word": "one of His Majesty's bad bargains"
}

Download raw JSONL data for one of His Majesty's bad bargains meaning in English (1.3kB)

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-07 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (92124b4 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.

"one of His Majesty's bad bargains" meaning in English

Noun