"organ grinder" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the repetitive grinding involved in playing a barrel organ. In figurative senses, from the common 19th-century practice of training monkeys to dance to an organ grinder's music in order to perform on the street and solicit donations and spare change.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "organ grinders",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "hyphenation": [
    "or‧gan"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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      "derived": [
        {
          "_dis1": "86 14",
          "word": "the organ grinder, not the monkey"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1929, George Orwell, “Beggars in London”, in An Inquiry into “Civic Progress” in England",
          "text": "Those who cannot play any instrument wheel a gramophone through the streets on a barrow, but the largest number of these street musicians are organ grinders.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The player of a barrel organ."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "player",
          "player"
        ],
        [
          "barrel organ",
          "barrel organ"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "barrel organist"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "59 41",
          "word": "organ-grinder"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "player of a barrel organ",
          "word": "posetiivari"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "player of a barrel organ",
          "word": "kintornás"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "šarmánščik",
          "sense": "player of a barrel organ",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "шарма́нщик"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "34 66",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Musicians",
          "orig": "en:Musicians",
          "parents": [
            "Music",
            "Occupations",
            "Art",
            "Sound",
            "People",
            "Work",
            "Culture",
            "Energy",
            "Human",
            "Human activity",
            "Society",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Fundamental"
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        {
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        }
      ],
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        {
          "text": "I want to speak to the organ grinder, not the monkey.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The person who is in charge, rather than a lackey or representative; the person truly responsible for another's actions."
      ],
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          "in charge",
          "in charge"
        ],
        [
          "lackey",
          "lackey"
        ],
        [
          "representative",
          "representative#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "truly",
          "truly"
        ],
        [
          "responsible",
          "responsible"
        ],
        [
          "actions",
          "action#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) The person who is in charge, rather than a lackey or representative; the person truly responsible for another's actions."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "the organ grinder, not the monkey"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɔːɡən ˌɡɹaɪndə/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɔɹɡən ˌɡɹaɪndəɹ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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  "word": "organ grinder"
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    "en:Musicians",
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "the organ grinder, not the monkey"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From the repetitive grinding involved in playing a barrel organ. In figurative senses, from the common 19th-century practice of training monkeys to dance to an organ grinder's music in order to perform on the street and solicit donations and spare change.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "organ grinders",
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      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1929, George Orwell, “Beggars in London”, in An Inquiry into “Civic Progress” in England",
          "text": "Those who cannot play any instrument wheel a gramophone through the streets on a barrow, but the largest number of these street musicians are organ grinders.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The player of a barrel organ."
      ],
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          "player",
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        ],
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          "barrel organ",
          "barrel organ"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "barrel organist"
        }
      ]
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        {
          "text": "I want to speak to the organ grinder, not the monkey.",
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      "glosses": [
        "The person who is in charge, rather than a lackey or representative; the person truly responsible for another's actions."
      ],
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        ],
        [
          "in charge",
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        ],
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          "lackey",
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        ],
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          "representative",
          "representative#Noun"
        ],
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          "truly",
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          "responsible",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) The person who is in charge, rather than a lackey or representative; the person truly responsible for another's actions."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "the organ grinder, not the monkey"
        }
      ],
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        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɔːɡən ˌɡɹaɪndə/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɔɹɡən ˌɡɹaɪndəɹ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "organ-grinder"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "player of a barrel organ",
      "word": "posetiivari"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "player of a barrel organ",
      "word": "kintornás"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "šarmánščik",
      "sense": "player of a barrel organ",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "шарма́нщик"
    }
  ],
  "word": "organ grinder"
}

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