See there is an exception to every rule in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for there is an exception to every rule meaning in English (3.8kB)
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "proverb"
},
"expansion": "there is an exception to every rule",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "proverb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Arabic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
"parents": [
"Terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English proverbs",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Usually said in a situation when the rule is incorrect and unusable."
],
"id": "en-there_is_an_exception_to_every_rule-en-proverb-7eyvrPyI",
"links": [
[
"incorrect",
"incorrect"
],
[
"unusable",
"unusable"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "likulli qāʕidatini stiṯnāʔun",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "لِكُلِّ قَاعِدَةٍ ٱسْتِثْنَاءٌ"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "likulli qāʕidatin šawāḏḏu",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "لِكُلِّ قَاعِدَةٍ شَوَاذُّ"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "規則之外總有例外"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "guīzé zhīwài zǒng yǒu lìwài",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "规则之外总有例外"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "výjimka potvrzuje pravidlo"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "ingen regel uden undtagelse"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "joka sääntöön on poikkeus"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "c’est l’exception qui confirme la règle"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "il n’y a pas de règle sans exception"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "keine Regel ohne Ausnahme"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "לכל כלל יש יוצא מן הכלל"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "a kivétel erősíti a szabályt"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "ogni regola ha la sua eccezione."
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "dono kisoku-nimo reigai-ga aru",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "どの規則にも例外がある"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "ingen regel uten unntak"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "toda regra tem exceção"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "toda regra tem uma exceção"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "não há regra sem exceção"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "u káždovo právila jestʹ iskljúčenije",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "у ка́ждого пра́вила есть исклю́чение"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "iskljúčenije podtverždájet právilo",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "исклю́чение подтвержда́ет пра́вило"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "no hay regla sin excepción"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "ingen regel utan undantag"
}
]
}
],
"word": "there is an exception to every rule"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "proverb"
},
"expansion": "there is an exception to every rule",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "proverb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Arabic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English proverbs"
],
"glosses": [
"Usually said in a situation when the rule is incorrect and unusable."
],
"links": [
[
"incorrect",
"incorrect"
],
[
"unusable",
"unusable"
]
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "likulli qāʕidatini stiṯnāʔun",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "لِكُلِّ قَاعِدَةٍ ٱسْتِثْنَاءٌ"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "likulli qāʕidatin šawāḏḏu",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "لِكُلِّ قَاعِدَةٍ شَوَاذُّ"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "規則之外總有例外"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "guīzé zhīwài zǒng yǒu lìwài",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "规则之外总有例外"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "výjimka potvrzuje pravidlo"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "ingen regel uden undtagelse"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "joka sääntöön on poikkeus"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "c’est l’exception qui confirme la règle"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "il n’y a pas de règle sans exception"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "keine Regel ohne Ausnahme"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "לכל כלל יש יוצא מן הכלל"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "a kivétel erősíti a szabályt"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "ogni regola ha la sua eccezione."
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "dono kisoku-nimo reigai-ga aru",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "どの規則にも例外がある"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "ingen regel uten unntak"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "toda regra tem exceção"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "toda regra tem uma exceção"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "não há regra sem exceção"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "u káždovo právila jestʹ iskljúčenije",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "у ка́ждого пра́вила есть исклю́чение"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "iskljúčenije podtverždájet právilo",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "исклю́чение подтвержда́ет пра́вило"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "no hay regla sin excepción"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "every rule has an exception",
"word": "ingen regel utan undantag"
}
],
"word": "there is an exception to every rule"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.