"step into the breach" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "steps into the breach",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stepping into the breach",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stepped into the breach",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stepped into the breach",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "step into the breach (third-person singular simple present steps into the breach, present participle stepping into the breach, simple past and past participle stepped into the breach)",
      "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"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To do a task that one is not ordinarily expected to do because there is no one else to do it."
      ],
      "id": "en-step_into_the_breach-en-verb-mKdoXBaD",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) To do a task that one is not ordinarily expected to do because there is no one else to do it."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "bell the cat"
        },
        {
          "word": "take one for the team"
        },
        {
          "word": "once more into the breach"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "leap into the breach"
        },
        {
          "word": "jump into the breach"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "tulla tilalle"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "tulla apuun"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "in die Bresche springen"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "wypełniać lukę"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "wypełnić lukę"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "step into the breach"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "steps into the breach",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stepping into the breach",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stepped into the breach",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stepped into the breach",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "step into the breach (third-person singular simple present steps into the breach, present participle stepping into the breach, simple past and past participle stepped into the breach)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "bell the cat"
    },
    {
      "word": "take one for the team"
    },
    {
      "word": "once more into the breach"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English verbs",
        "Translation table header lacks gloss"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To do a task that one is not ordinarily expected to do because there is no one else to do it."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) To do a task that one is not ordinarily expected to do because there is no one else to do it."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "leap into the breach"
        },
        {
          "word": "jump into the breach"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "tulla tilalle"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "tulla apuun"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "in die Bresche springen"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "wypełniać lukę"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "wypełnić lukę"
    }
  ],
  "word": "step into the breach"
}