sisters before misters in English

[Show JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "proverb"
      },
      "expansion": "sisters before misters",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "proverb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "misters before sisters"
        },
        {
          "word": "dicks before chicks"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English proverbs",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, Nancy Robards Thompson, Accidental Princess, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 110:",
          "text": "When Sophie was a teenager, she and her friends had a \"sisters before misters\" pact, meaning they'd never date each other's exes and they'd never let a guy come between their friendship.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A woman should prioritize her female friends over her boyfriend or husband."
      ],
      "id": "en-sisters_before_misters-en-proverb-9Z1Q7hj8",
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "woman",
          "woman"
        ],
        [
          "prioritize",
          "prioritize"
        ],
        [
          "female",
          "female"
        ],
        [
          "friends",
          "friends"
        ],
        [
          "boyfriend",
          "boyfriend"
        ],
        [
          "husband",
          "husband"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, humorous) A woman should prioritize her female friends over her boyfriend or husband."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "sister from another mister"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "chicks before dicks"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humorous",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sisters before misters"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "proverb"
      },
      "expansion": "sisters before misters",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "proverb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "sister from another mister"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "misters before sisters"
        },
        {
          "word": "dicks before chicks"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English humorous terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English proverbs",
        "English rhyming phrases",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, Nancy Robards Thompson, Accidental Princess, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 110:",
          "text": "When Sophie was a teenager, she and her friends had a \"sisters before misters\" pact, meaning they'd never date each other's exes and they'd never let a guy come between their friendship.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A woman should prioritize her female friends over her boyfriend or husband."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "woman",
          "woman"
        ],
        [
          "prioritize",
          "prioritize"
        ],
        [
          "female",
          "female"
        ],
        [
          "friends",
          "friends"
        ],
        [
          "boyfriend",
          "boyfriend"
        ],
        [
          "husband",
          "husband"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, humorous) A woman should prioritize her female friends over her boyfriend or husband."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "chicks before dicks"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humorous",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sisters before misters"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-21 using wiktextract (fef8596 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.

"sisters before misters" meaning in English

Proverb