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"ref": "1849, Ralph Erskine, Gospel sonnets; or, Spiritual songs, page 233",
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"text": "Article V.—In consideration of the numerous difficulties arising from the authority exercised by local officials over the legal traffic at such places on the boundary as I-chou, Hui-ning, and Ch’ing-yuan, it has now been decided that the people on the frontier shall be free to go to and fro and trade as they please at Ts’e-men and I-chou on the two sides of the Ya-lu River, and at Hun-ch’un and Hui-ning on the two sides of the T’u-men River.",
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "tudá-sjudá",
"sense": "back and forth",
"word": "туда́-сюда́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vzad i vperjód",
"sense": "back and forth",
"word": "взад и вперёд"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "vi",
"sense": "back and forth",
"word": "वि"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "back and forth",
"word": "avanti e 'n arreri"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "back and forth",
"word": "de ceca en meca"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "back and forth",
"word": "palante y patrás"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "back and forth",
"word": "de la ceca a la meca"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "back and forth",
"word": "av och an"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "back and forth",
"word": "fram och tillbaka"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "back and forth",
"word": "fram och åter"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "back and forth",
"word": "hit och dit"
},
{
"code": "txb",
"lang": "Tocharian B",
"sense": "back and forth",
"word": "orkäntai"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "back and forth",
"word": "ileri geri"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "back and forth",
"word": "bir ileri bir geri"
},
{
"code": "yo",
"lang": "Yoruba",
"sense": "back and forth",
"word": "lọ́tùn-ún lósì"
},
{
"code": "yo",
"lang": "Yoruba",
"sense": "back and forth",
"word": "sọ́tùn-ún sósì"
}
],
"word": "to and fro"
}
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"English adverbs",
"English coordinated pairs",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
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"English merisms",
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{
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"pos": "verb",
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{
"ref": "2015, Barbara Taylor, The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times",
"text": "\"For a while I didn't tell anyone on the ward where I was going, but my toing and froing made people curious and eventually I confided in a few.\"",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To go back and forth; to alternate."
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[
"back and forth",
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[
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],
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"(idiomatic) To go back and forth; to alternate."
],
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}
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"word": "to-and-fro"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "pertaining to something in to and fro motion",
"word": "mennä edestakaisin"
}
],
"word": "to and fro"
}
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"English multiword terms",
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"pos": "adj",
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"English terms with quotations"
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1847, Peter Mere Latham, Lectures on subjects connected with clinical medicine, comprising diseases, page 90",
"text": "The next day he had more power of moving his limbs, and the to and fro sound was thought to be a little less distinct.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"Pertaining to something or someone moving forward and back to the same position."
],
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[
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[
"forward",
"forward"
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[
"back",
"back"
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[
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"position"
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],
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"(dated) Pertaining to something or someone moving forward and back to the same position."
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"not-comparable"
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}
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{
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"word": "to-and-fro"
}
],
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "pertaining to something in to and fro motion",
"word": "edestakainen"
}
],
"word": "to and fro"
}
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"English adverbs",
"English coordinated pairs",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English merisms",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"English uncomparable adverbs",
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"forms": [
{
"form": "to and fros",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "tos and fros",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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"args": {
"1": "s",
"2": "tos and fros"
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}
],
"lang": "English",
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"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
"English dated terms",
"English terms with quotations"
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1849, Ralph Erskine, Gospel sonnets; or, Spiritual songs, page 233",
"text": "My life's a maze of seeming traps, A scene of mercies and mishaps; A heap of jarring to and fros, A field of joys, A field of woes.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The movement (of someone or something) forward followed by a return to the same position. May refer to a concept such as an emotional state or a relationship as well as a physical thing."
],
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[
"forward",
"forward"
],
[
"return",
"return"
],
[
"position",
"position"
],
[
"concept",
"concept"
],
[
"emotional",
"emotional"
],
[
"state",
"state"
],
[
"relationship",
"relationship"
],
[
"physical",
"physical"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(dated) The movement (of someone or something) forward followed by a return to the same position. May refer to a concept such as an emotional state or a relationship as well as a physical thing."
],
"tags": [
"dated"
]
}
],
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{
"english": "all parts of speech except adverb",
"word": "to-and-fro"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "a to and fro motion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "aller-retour"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "a to and fro motion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "va-et-vient"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "pigainéla",
"sense": "a to and fro motion",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "πηγαινέλα"
}
],
"word": "to and fro"
}
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