"strain a point" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "strains a point",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "straining a point",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strained a point",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strained a point",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "strain a point (third-person singular simple present strains a point, present participle straining a point, simple past and past participle strained a point)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:",
          "text": "I want you to strain a point, Mr Bellingham, and to do me a service which I assure you you shall never have any cause to regret. I want you to wire instructions down the line to detain this Arab and his companions and to keep them in custody until the receipt of further instructions.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make a special effort; especially, to do a degree of violence to some principle or to one's own feelings."
      ],
      "id": "en-strain_a_point-en-verb-nrqstns~",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To make a special effort; especially, to do a degree of violence to some principle or to one's own feelings."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "strain a point"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "strains a point",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "straining a point",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strained a point",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strained a point",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "strain a point (third-person singular simple present strains a point, present participle straining a point, simple past and past participle strained a point)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:",
          "text": "I want you to strain a point, Mr Bellingham, and to do me a service which I assure you you shall never have any cause to regret. I want you to wire instructions down the line to detain this Arab and his companions and to keep them in custody until the receipt of further instructions.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make a special effort; especially, to do a degree of violence to some principle or to one's own feelings."
      ],
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        "(idiomatic) To make a special effort; especially, to do a degree of violence to some principle or to one's own feelings."
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "strain a point"
}