"try it on the dog" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tries it on the dog",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "trying it on the dog",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tried it on the dog",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tried it on the dog",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "try it on the dog (third-person singular simple present tries it on the dog, present participle trying it on the dog, simple past and past participle tried it on the dog)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with placeholder \"it\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1905, John Shanks Lindsay, The Mormons and the Theatre, page 129",
          "text": "They had feared to make the venture with it at the California theatre in San Francisco where they had been favorites, so they brought it to Salt Lake to \"try it on the dog.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To try something (especially a theatrical play) on a less important audience to gauge the likelihood of success before committing to general release or approval."
      ],
      "id": "en-try_it_on_the_dog-en-verb-E1o2KFDE",
      "links": [
        [
          "theatrical",
          "theatrical"
        ],
        [
          "play",
          "play"
        ],
        [
          "important",
          "important"
        ],
        [
          "audience",
          "audience"
        ],
        [
          "gauge",
          "gauge"
        ],
        [
          "general",
          "general"
        ],
        [
          "release",
          "release"
        ],
        [
          "approval",
          "approval"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) To try something (especially a theatrical play) on a less important audience to gauge the likelihood of success before committing to general release or approval."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "dog town"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "try it out on the dog"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "try it on the dog"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tries it on the dog",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "trying it on the dog",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tried it on the dog",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tried it on the dog",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "try it on the dog (third-person singular simple present tries it on the dog, present participle trying it on the dog, simple past and past participle tried it on the dog)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "dog town"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with placeholder \"it\"",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1905, John Shanks Lindsay, The Mormons and the Theatre, page 129",
          "text": "They had feared to make the venture with it at the California theatre in San Francisco where they had been favorites, so they brought it to Salt Lake to \"try it on the dog.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To try something (especially a theatrical play) on a less important audience to gauge the likelihood of success before committing to general release or approval."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "theatrical",
          "theatrical"
        ],
        [
          "play",
          "play"
        ],
        [
          "important",
          "important"
        ],
        [
          "audience",
          "audience"
        ],
        [
          "gauge",
          "gauge"
        ],
        [
          "general",
          "general"
        ],
        [
          "release",
          "release"
        ],
        [
          "approval",
          "approval"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) To try something (especially a theatrical play) on a less important audience to gauge the likelihood of success before committing to general release or approval."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "try it out on the dog"
    }
  ],
  "word": "try it on the dog"
}