"take out an onion" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "The vapours from sliced onions cause tears, allowing someone to pretend to cry. Coined by Private Eye and used as a mock stage description, originally to describe Harold MacMillan.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takes out an onion",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking out an onion",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took out an onion",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken out an onion",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> out an onion"
      },
      "expansion": "take out an onion (third-person singular simple present takes out an onion, present participle taking out an onion, simple past took out an onion, past participle taken out an onion)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        },
        {
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          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Private Eye",
          "orig": "en:Private Eye",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010 August 6, Jonathan Wheatley, “Brazil’s TV debate: ports, rates and Lula’s shadow”, in The Financial Times:",
          "text": "He’s almost taking out an onion now as he remembers his father and his own early struggles.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 December 11, DJ Taylor, “Clichés - We're all in them together”, in The Independent:",
          "text": "\"I don't want the next generation to misunderstand history\" Mr Chea told a packed court, no doubt taking out an onion as he did so. \"I don't want them to believe the Khmer Rouge were bad people, war criminals.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 January 21, Andrew Gilligan, “Ken Livingstone: new health concerns as multiple personality disorder detected”, in The Daily Telegraph:",
          "text": "I sympathise, of course, (takes out onion) with Ken’s own experience of how hard it is to find employment, in a particularly tough job market for embittered old lefties.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Suggests that the performer of the action is not sincere in their grief."
      ],
      "id": "en-take_out_an_onion-en-verb-yzbG4qe-",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Suggests that the performer of the action is not sincere in their grief."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "crocodile tears"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "take out an onion"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "The vapours from sliced onions cause tears, allowing someone to pretend to cry. Coined by Private Eye and used as a mock stage description, originally to describe Harold MacMillan.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takes out an onion",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking out an onion",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took out an onion",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken out an onion",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> out an onion"
      },
      "expansion": "take out an onion (third-person singular simple present takes out an onion, present participle taking out an onion, simple past took out an onion, past participle taken out an onion)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "crocodile tears"
    }
  ],
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        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010 August 6, Jonathan Wheatley, “Brazil’s TV debate: ports, rates and Lula’s shadow”, in The Financial Times:",
          "text": "He’s almost taking out an onion now as he remembers his father and his own early struggles.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 December 11, DJ Taylor, “Clichés - We're all in them together”, in The Independent:",
          "text": "\"I don't want the next generation to misunderstand history\" Mr Chea told a packed court, no doubt taking out an onion as he did so. \"I don't want them to believe the Khmer Rouge were bad people, war criminals.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 January 21, Andrew Gilligan, “Ken Livingstone: new health concerns as multiple personality disorder detected”, in The Daily Telegraph:",
          "text": "I sympathise, of course, (takes out onion) with Ken’s own experience of how hard it is to find employment, in a particularly tough job market for embittered old lefties.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Suggests that the performer of the action is not sincere in their grief."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Suggests that the performer of the action is not sincere in their grief."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "take out an onion"
}