what was your first clue 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": "phrase",
        "head": "what was your first clue?"
      },
      "expansion": "what was your first clue?",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "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": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A riposte to someone who has just stated an obvious conclusion."
      ],
      "id": "en-what_was_your_first_clue-en-phrase-VRdTZI0-",
      "links": [
        [
          "sarcastic",
          "sarcastic"
        ],
        [
          "riposte",
          "riposte#English"
        ],
        [
          "obvious",
          "obvious#English"
        ],
        [
          "conclusion",
          "conclusion#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, sarcastic) A riposte to someone who has just stated an obvious conclusion."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "vulgar"
          ],
          "word": "no shit, Sherlock"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "sarcastic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-what was your first clue.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/bd/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-what_was_your_first_clue.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-what_was_your_first_clue.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/bd/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-what_was_your_first_clue.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-what_was_your_first_clue.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "what was your first clue"
}

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

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "phrase",
        "head": "what was your first clue?"
      },
      "expansion": "what was your first clue?",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrases",
        "English sarcastic terms",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A riposte to someone who has just stated an obvious conclusion."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sarcastic",
          "sarcastic"
        ],
        [
          "riposte",
          "riposte#English"
        ],
        [
          "obvious",
          "obvious#English"
        ],
        [
          "conclusion",
          "conclusion#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, sarcastic) A riposte to someone who has just stated an obvious conclusion."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "sarcastic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-what was your first clue.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/bd/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-what_was_your_first_clue.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-what_was_your_first_clue.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/bd/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-what_was_your_first_clue.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-what_was_your_first_clue.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "vulgar"
      ],
      "word": "no shit, Sherlock"
    }
  ],
  "word": "what was your first clue"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (74c5344 and fb63907). 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.

"what was your first clue" meaning in English

Phrase