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"forms": [
{
"form": "plays to the gallery",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "playing to the gallery",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "played to the gallery",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "played to the gallery",
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"past"
]
}
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"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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"categories": [
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"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
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"Entry maintenance"
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"source": "w"
}
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"glosses": [
"To appeal to the least sophisticated parts of an audience in order to obtain maximum approval."
],
"id": "en-play_to_the_gallery-en-verb-w7cq53Ui",
"links": [
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"appeal",
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],
[
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"audience",
"audience"
],
[
"maximum",
"maximum"
],
[
"approval",
"approval"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, idiomatic) To appeal to the least sophisticated parts of an audience in order to obtain maximum approval."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "grandstand"
},
{
"word": "lowest common denominator"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "play to the cheap seats"
},
{
"word": "play to the crowd"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"intransitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "spille for galleriet"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "hacer brindis al sol"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "posturear"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "hacer de cara a la galería (algo)"
}
]
}
],
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/En-au-play_to_the_gallery.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "play to the gallery"
}
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},
{
"form": "playing to the gallery",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "played to the gallery",
"tags": [
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"past"
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},
{
"form": "played to the gallery",
"tags": [
"past"
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}
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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"word": "lowest common denominator"
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"English verbs",
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],
"glosses": [
"To appeal to the least sophisticated parts of an audience in order to obtain maximum approval."
],
"links": [
[
"appeal",
"appeal"
],
[
"sophisticated",
"sophisticated"
],
[
"audience",
"audience"
],
[
"maximum",
"maximum"
],
[
"approval",
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, idiomatic) To appeal to the least sophisticated parts of an audience in order to obtain maximum approval."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"intransitive"
]
}
],
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"tags": [
"Australia"
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],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "play to the cheap seats"
},
{
"word": "play to the crowd"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "spille for galleriet"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "hacer brindis al sol"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "posturear"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "hacer de cara a la galería (algo)"
}
],
"word": "play to the gallery"
}
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