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"word": "tin-pot dictator"
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"etymology_text": "Originated in the 1700s, from the low esteem for a tinker's wares.",
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"pos": "adj",
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"word": "tin-foil"
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"glosses": [
"Inferior; shoddy."
],
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"raw_glosses": [
"(informal) Inferior; shoddy."
],
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"informal",
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"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "evtin",
"sense": "inferior, shoddy",
"word": "евтин"
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{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "bg",
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"roman": "dolnokačestven",
"sense": "inferior, shoddy",
"word": "долнокачествен"
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"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "inferior, shoddy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "lichy"
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{
"_dis1": "99 1",
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"sense": "inferior, shoddy",
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"masculine"
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{
"ref": "1980 March 3, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “The Official Visit”, in Yes, Minister, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Jim Hacker and Humphrey Appleby (Paul Eddington and Nigel Hawthorne)",
"text": "Jim Hacker: Why are we having an official visit from this tin-pot little African country?\nSir Humphrey Appleby: Minister, I beg of you not to refer to it as a tin-pot little African country. It's an LDC.",
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"Of a country, regime etc., autocratic, especially in a petty and amusing manner."
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"(informal) Of a country, regime etc., autocratic, especially in a petty and amusing manner."
],
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"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "tinpot"
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"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "tin pot"
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"derived": [
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"word": "tin-pot dictator"
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{
"word": "tin-pot dictatorship"
}
],
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"Inferior; shoddy."
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"(informal) Inferior; shoddy."
],
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"ref": "1980 March 3, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “The Official Visit”, in Yes, Minister, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Jim Hacker and Humphrey Appleby (Paul Eddington and Nigel Hawthorne)",
"text": "Jim Hacker: Why are we having an official visit from this tin-pot little African country?\nSir Humphrey Appleby: Minister, I beg of you not to refer to it as a tin-pot little African country. It's an LDC.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"Of a country, regime etc., autocratic, especially in a petty and amusing manner."
],
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"autocratic"
],
[
"petty",
"petty"
],
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"amusing"
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"(informal) Of a country, regime etc., autocratic, especially in a petty and amusing manner."
],
"tags": [
"informal",
"not-comparable"
]
}
],
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"tags": [
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"synonyms": [
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"word": "tinpot"
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{
"word": "tin pot"
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],
"translations": [
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "evtin",
"sense": "inferior, shoddy",
"word": "евтин"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "dolnokačestven",
"sense": "inferior, shoddy",
"word": "долнокачествен"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "inferior, shoddy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lichy"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "inferior, shoddy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nędzny"
}
],
"word": "tin-pot"
}
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