"put the beggar on the gentleman" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "puts the beggar on the gentleman",
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    {
      "form": "putting the beggar on the gentleman",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    {
      "form": "put the beggar on the gentleman",
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        "participle",
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    },
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      "form": "put the beggar on the gentleman",
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1838, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers, volume 11:",
          "text": "He called for two gills of ale, and I took my share; but I was determined not to put the beggar on the gentleman, that was my phrase to him, being a fellow workman. And when they brought the two glasses of ale, I took mine, and gave it to a man of the name of Thomas Kay; […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1979, Harold W. Thompson, Body, Boots, and Britches, page 504:",
          "text": "And there is the grandmother who says scornfully, if someone makes a good cake with poor icing, \"That is putting the beggar on the gentleman\".",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To follow up something good with something inferior."
      ],
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          "good",
          "good"
        ],
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          "inferior",
          "inferior"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, idiomatic, slang, obsolete) To follow up something good with something inferior."
      ],
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        "UK",
        "idiomatic",
        "obsolete",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "put the beggar on the gentleman"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "puts the beggar on the gentleman",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "putting the beggar on the gentleman",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put the beggar on the gentleman",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put the beggar on the gentleman",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
          "ref": "1838, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers, volume 11:",
          "text": "He called for two gills of ale, and I took my share; but I was determined not to put the beggar on the gentleman, that was my phrase to him, being a fellow workman. And when they brought the two glasses of ale, I took mine, and gave it to a man of the name of Thomas Kay; […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1979, Harold W. Thompson, Body, Boots, and Britches, page 504:",
          "text": "And there is the grandmother who says scornfully, if someone makes a good cake with poor icing, \"That is putting the beggar on the gentleman\".",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "To follow up something good with something inferior."
      ],
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          "good",
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        "(UK, idiomatic, slang, obsolete) To follow up something good with something inferior."
      ],
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  "word": "put the beggar on the gentleman"
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