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"forms": [
{
"form": "slips through the cracks",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "slipping through the cracks",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "slipped through the cracks",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "slipped through the cracks",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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},
"expansion": "slip through the cracks (third-person singular simple present slips through the cracks, present participle slipping through the cracks, simple past and past participle slipped through the cracks)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
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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"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Check inside each file carefully to make sure nothing slips through the cracks."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To escape notice or lack sufficient attention."
],
"id": "en-slip_through_the_cracks-en-verb-lZmidAVn",
"links": [
[
"escape",
"escape"
],
[
"notice",
"notice"
],
[
"lack",
"lack"
],
[
"sufficient",
"sufficient"
],
[
"attention",
"attention"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) To escape notice or lack sufficient attention."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "slip through the net"
},
{
"word": "fall through the cracks"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to escape notice",
"word": "jäädä huomaamatta"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to escape notice",
"word": "livahtaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to escape notice",
"word": "passer entre les mailles du filet"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to escape notice",
"word": "durch das Raster fallen"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to escape notice",
"word": "colarse por las rendijas"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to escape notice",
"word": "falla mellan två stolar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to escape notice",
"word": "falla mellan stolarna"
}
]
}
],
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/En-au-slip_through_the_cracks.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "slip through the cracks"
}
{
"forms": [
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"form": "slips through the cracks",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "slipping through the cracks",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "slipped through the cracks",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "slipped through the cracks",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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"head": "slip through the cracks"
},
"expansion": "slip through the cracks (third-person singular simple present slips through the cracks, present participle slipping through the cracks, simple past and past participle slipped through the cracks)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English idioms",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English terms with audio links",
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"examples": [
{
"text": "Check inside each file carefully to make sure nothing slips through the cracks."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To escape notice or lack sufficient attention."
],
"links": [
[
"escape",
"escape"
],
[
"notice",
"notice"
],
[
"lack",
"lack"
],
[
"sufficient",
"sufficient"
],
[
"attention",
"attention"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) To escape notice or lack sufficient attention."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
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"audio": "En-au-slip through the cracks.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/96/En-au-slip_through_the_cracks.ogg/En-au-slip_through_the_cracks.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/En-au-slip_through_the_cracks.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "slip through the net"
},
{
"word": "fall through the cracks"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to escape notice",
"word": "jäädä huomaamatta"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to escape notice",
"word": "livahtaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to escape notice",
"word": "passer entre les mailles du filet"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to escape notice",
"word": "durch das Raster fallen"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to escape notice",
"word": "colarse por las rendijas"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to escape notice",
"word": "falla mellan två stolar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to escape notice",
"word": "falla mellan stolarna"
}
],
"word": "slip through the cracks"
}
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