"rip off the band-aid" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rips off the band-aid",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ripping off the band-aid",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ripped off the band-aid",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ripped off the band-aid",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "rip off the band-aid (third-person singular simple present rips off the band-aid, present participle ripping off the band-aid, simple past and past participle ripped off the band-aid)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "parents": [
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Pain",
          "orig": "en:Pain",
          "parents": [
            "Medical signs and symptoms",
            "Perception",
            "Health",
            "Pathology",
            "Body",
            "Medicine",
            "Human",
            "Biology",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007 May 14, Aldo Cella, “From The Orioles Hangout Page”, in alt.sports.baseball.bos-redsox (Usenet)",
          "text": "Look, folks. I don't want to write this recap any more than you want to read it. But let's rip off the Band-Aid and get through this thing together.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To perform a painful or unpleasant but necessary action quickly so as to minimize the pain or fear associated with it."
      ],
      "id": "en-rip_off_the_band-aid-en-verb-E2f3yqDO",
      "links": [
        [
          "painful",
          "painful"
        ],
        [
          "unpleasant",
          "unpleasant"
        ],
        [
          "necessary",
          "necessary"
        ],
        [
          "action",
          "action"
        ],
        [
          "quickly",
          "quickly"
        ],
        [
          "minimize",
          "minimize"
        ],
        [
          "pain",
          "pain"
        ],
        [
          "fear",
          "fear"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, idiomatic) To perform a painful or unpleasant but necessary action quickly so as to minimize the pain or fear associated with it."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "rip off the band-aid"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rips off the band-aid",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ripping off the band-aid",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ripped off the band-aid",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ripped off the band-aid",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "rip off the band-aid (third-person singular simple present rips off the band-aid, present participle ripping off the band-aid, simple past and past participle ripped off the band-aid)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English idioms",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "en:Pain"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007 May 14, Aldo Cella, “From The Orioles Hangout Page”, in alt.sports.baseball.bos-redsox (Usenet)",
          "text": "Look, folks. I don't want to write this recap any more than you want to read it. But let's rip off the Band-Aid and get through this thing together.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To perform a painful or unpleasant but necessary action quickly so as to minimize the pain or fear associated with it."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "painful",
          "painful"
        ],
        [
          "unpleasant",
          "unpleasant"
        ],
        [
          "necessary",
          "necessary"
        ],
        [
          "action",
          "action"
        ],
        [
          "quickly",
          "quickly"
        ],
        [
          "minimize",
          "minimize"
        ],
        [
          "pain",
          "pain"
        ],
        [
          "fear",
          "fear"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, idiomatic) To perform a painful or unpleasant but necessary action quickly so as to minimize the pain or fear associated with it."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "rip off the band-aid"
}