"stand tall" meaning in English

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        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "standing tall",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "stood tall",
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        "past"
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    },
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      "form": "stood tall",
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1892, Margaret Sidney, chapter 9, in Five Little Peppers Grown Up",
          "text": "\"I'll not sing one note!\" she declared, standing tall, \"not one single note!\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, Fern Michaels, Texas Heat, page 300",
          "text": "But there was beauty in her, and an inner strength that would allow her to stand tall and accept last night's phone call.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002 March 18, Jonathan Fenby, “New elections, Same old Faces”, in Time",
          "text": "The economic expansion that enabled the country to stand tall at the start of the century has slowed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 January 19, Jonathan Stevenson, “Leeds 1 - 3 Arsenal”, in BBC",
          "text": "Leeds were once more indebted to the exceptional Schmeichel for keeping them in it when he stood tall to parry away Alex Song's near-post drive only 23 seconds into the second half, before Robert Snodgrass produced a goal-saving tackle just as Arshavin was about to pull the trigger.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To behave in a brave, proud, or unyielding manner, without retreating from confrontation, danger, or adversity."
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "brave",
          "brave"
        ],
        [
          "proud",
          "proud"
        ],
        [
          "unyielding",
          "unyielding"
        ],
        [
          "retreat",
          "retreat"
        ],
        [
          "confrontation",
          "confrontation"
        ],
        [
          "danger",
          "danger"
        ],
        [
          "adversity",
          "adversity"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To behave in a brave, proud, or unyielding manner, without retreating from confrontation, danger, or adversity."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "hold one's own"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "walk tall"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to behave in a brave, proud, or unyielding manner",
          "word": "hålla huvudet högt"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to behave in a brave, proud, or unyielding manner",
          "word": "stå fast"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to behave in a brave, proud, or unyielding manner",
          "word": "ha råg i ryggen"
        }
      ]
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      "tags": [
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      "text": "Audio (AU)"
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  "word": "stand tall"
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      "tags": [
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        "third-person"
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    },
    {
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      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stood tall",
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    },
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      "form": "stood tall",
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    }
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  "pos": "verb",
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    {
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    }
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
          "ref": "1892, Margaret Sidney, chapter 9, in Five Little Peppers Grown Up",
          "text": "\"I'll not sing one note!\" she declared, standing tall, \"not one single note!\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, Fern Michaels, Texas Heat, page 300",
          "text": "But there was beauty in her, and an inner strength that would allow her to stand tall and accept last night's phone call.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002 March 18, Jonathan Fenby, “New elections, Same old Faces”, in Time",
          "text": "The economic expansion that enabled the country to stand tall at the start of the century has slowed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 January 19, Jonathan Stevenson, “Leeds 1 - 3 Arsenal”, in BBC",
          "text": "Leeds were once more indebted to the exceptional Schmeichel for keeping them in it when he stood tall to parry away Alex Song's near-post drive only 23 seconds into the second half, before Robert Snodgrass produced a goal-saving tackle just as Arshavin was about to pull the trigger.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "To behave in a brave, proud, or unyielding manner, without retreating from confrontation, danger, or adversity."
      ],
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          "brave"
        ],
        [
          "proud",
          "proud"
        ],
        [
          "unyielding",
          "unyielding"
        ],
        [
          "retreat",
          "retreat"
        ],
        [
          "confrontation",
          "confrontation"
        ],
        [
          "danger",
          "danger"
        ],
        [
          "adversity",
          "adversity"
        ]
      ],
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        "(idiomatic) To behave in a brave, proud, or unyielding manner, without retreating from confrontation, danger, or adversity."
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "walk tall"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to behave in a brave, proud, or unyielding manner",
      "word": "hålla huvudet högt"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to behave in a brave, proud, or unyielding manner",
      "word": "stå fast"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to behave in a brave, proud, or unyielding manner",
      "word": "ha råg i ryggen"
    }
  ],
  "word": "stand tall"
}