"suck the mop" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "sucks the mop",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "sucking the mop",
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        "participle",
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    {
      "form": "sucked the mop",
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        "past"
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    {
      "form": "sucked the mop",
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        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1987, John Barth, The Tidewater Tales, page 426",
          "text": "Kathy says Much obliged, but what I don't appreciate about this piece of moral news is the pairing of successful writer with sexy hotshot lit prof, which leaves us pregnant librarians and failed playwrights sucking the mop.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be left in a disadvantageous position."
      ],
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        "(slang, idiomatic) To be left in a disadvantageous position."
      ],
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        "slang"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1867, Banter, number 1, page 81",
          "text": "\"Now then, poppy-head:\" — this to the conductor of a rival omnibus before us — \"how long am I to go on sucking the mop?\"",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Of a bus: to be deliberately boxed in by another so as to lose the opportunity to pick up passengers."
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          "passenger"
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        "(slang, idiomatic, UK, obsolete) Of a bus: to be deliberately boxed in by another so as to lose the opportunity to pick up passengers."
      ],
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        "UK",
        "idiomatic",
        "obsolete",
        "slang"
      ]
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  "word": "suck the mop"
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      "form": "sucks the mop",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "sucking the mop",
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    {
      "form": "sucked the mop",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    {
      "form": "sucked the mop",
      "tags": [
        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English slang",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1987, John Barth, The Tidewater Tales, page 426",
          "text": "Kathy says Much obliged, but what I don't appreciate about this piece of moral news is the pairing of successful writer with sexy hotshot lit prof, which leaves us pregnant librarians and failed playwrights sucking the mop.",
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        "To be left in a disadvantageous position."
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        "(slang, idiomatic) To be left in a disadvantageous position."
      ],
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        "idiomatic",
        "slang"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1867, Banter, number 1, page 81",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of a bus: to be deliberately boxed in by another so as to lose the opportunity to pick up passengers."
      ],
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        "(slang, idiomatic, UK, obsolete) Of a bus: to be deliberately boxed in by another so as to lose the opportunity to pick up passengers."
      ],
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        "idiomatic",
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