up the proverbial in English

[Show JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "prepositional phrase",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "up the proverbial",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "up the proverbial",
      "name": "en-PP"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English euphemisms",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "up shit creek"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Euphemistic form of up shit creek."
      ],
      "id": "en-up_the_proverbial-en-prep_phrase-dXigNgsI",
      "links": [
        [
          "up shit creek",
          "up shit creek#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(euphemistic) Euphemistic form of up shit creek."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "euphemistic",
        "form-of"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-up the proverbial.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/89/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-up_the_proverbial.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-up_the_proverbial.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/89/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-up_the_proverbial.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-up_the_proverbial.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "up the proverbial"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "prepositional phrase",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "up the proverbial",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "up the proverbial",
      "name": "en-PP"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English euphemisms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English prepositional phrases",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "up shit creek"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Euphemistic form of up shit creek."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "up shit creek",
          "up shit creek#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(euphemistic) Euphemistic form of up shit creek."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "euphemistic",
        "form-of"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-up the proverbial.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/89/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-up_the_proverbial.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-up_the_proverbial.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/89/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-up_the_proverbial.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-up_the_proverbial.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "up the proverbial"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). 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.

"up the proverbial" meaning in English

Prepositional phrase