"singe one's wings" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Allusion to the tragic story from Hellenic mythology, where Icarus along with his father Daedalus befled the Cretan labyrinth of Knossos by flying with wings that his father had made from feathers and wax. Daedalus forewarned his son of flying neither too low nor too high, that the sea's dampness not clog his wings nor the sun's heat melt them; but Icarus unheeding his father's bidding flew too near to the sun, thereby melting the wax in his wings: so he tumbled out of the sky and fell into the Aegean Sea where he drowned.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "singes one's wings",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "singeing one's wings",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "singed one's wings",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "singed one's wings",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "singe<,singeing> one's wings"
      },
      "expansion": "singe one's wings (third-person singular simple present singes one's wings, present participle singeing one's wings, simple past and past participle singed one's wings)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To sustain harm, loss or ruin by doing some risky or perilous deed."
      ],
      "id": "en-singe_one's_wings-en-verb-Sx1V6vgD",
      "links": [
        [
          "sustain",
          "sustain"
        ],
        [
          "harm",
          "harm"
        ],
        [
          "loss",
          "loss"
        ],
        [
          "ruin",
          "ruin"
        ],
        [
          "risky",
          "risky"
        ],
        [
          "perilous",
          "perilous"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To sustain harm, loss or ruin by doing some risky or perilous deed."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Jacob Peter Gowy"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
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    }
  ],
  "word": "singe one's wings"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Allusion to the tragic story from Hellenic mythology, where Icarus along with his father Daedalus befled the Cretan labyrinth of Knossos by flying with wings that his father had made from feathers and wax. Daedalus forewarned his son of flying neither too low nor too high, that the sea's dampness not clog his wings nor the sun's heat melt them; but Icarus unheeding his father's bidding flew too near to the sun, thereby melting the wax in his wings: so he tumbled out of the sky and fell into the Aegean Sea where he drowned.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "singes one's wings",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "singeing one's wings",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "singed one's wings",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "singed one's wings",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "singe<,singeing> one's wings"
      },
      "expansion": "singe one's wings (third-person singular simple present singes one's wings, present participle singeing one's wings, simple past and past participle singed one's wings)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English verbs",
        "Translation table header lacks gloss"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To sustain harm, loss or ruin by doing some risky or perilous deed."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sustain",
          "sustain"
        ],
        [
          "harm",
          "harm"
        ],
        [
          "loss",
          "loss"
        ],
        [
          "ruin",
          "ruin"
        ],
        [
          "risky",
          "risky"
        ],
        [
          "perilous",
          "perilous"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To sustain harm, loss or ruin by doing some risky or perilous deed."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Jacob Peter Gowy"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
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      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "singe one's wings"
}