"whistle for" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "whistles for",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "whistling for",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "whistled for",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "whistled for",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "whistle for (third-person singular simple present whistles for, present participle whistling for, simple past and past participle whistled for)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "94 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "86 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"for\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "83 17",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "92 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "93 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "82 18",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "79 21",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Max Arthur, We Will Remember Them: Voices from the Aftermath of the Great War, →ISBN:",
          "text": "If we wanted something we could whistle for it - but if the Australians wanted something you'd got to get it for them, or else.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Joan Jonker, Walking My Baby Back Home, →ISBN:",
          "text": "She could whistle for it now; she wouldn't get a penny from him even if she crawled on all fours.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Tess Read, The Secret Diary of Eric Cowell - Aged 6 1/2 months, →ISBN:",
          "text": "And if it was milk I was after from that environment I could clearly whistle for it.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1973, Doris Lessing, The Grass is Singing, →ISBN, page 96:",
          "text": "And as for ceilings, you can whistle for them. I have lived in this house for six years and it hasn't hurt me.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To request or ask for with no chance of success."
      ],
      "id": "en-whistle_for-en-verb-6RFiHNq3",
      "links": [
        [
          "request",
          "request"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To request or ask for with no chance of success."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "kysellä turhaan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "pouvoir toujours courir"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see whistle, for."
      ],
      "id": "en-whistle_for-en-verb-DANwPCHy",
      "links": [
        [
          "whistle",
          "whistle#English"
        ],
        [
          "for",
          "for#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-whistle for.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b3/En-au-whistle_for.ogg/En-au-whistle_for.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/En-au-whistle_for.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "whistle for"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs formed with \"for\"",
    "English verbs",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Translation table header lacks gloss"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "whistles for",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "whistling for",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "whistled for",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "whistled for",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "whistle for (third-person singular simple present whistles for, present participle whistling for, simple past and past participle whistled for)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Max Arthur, We Will Remember Them: Voices from the Aftermath of the Great War, →ISBN:",
          "text": "If we wanted something we could whistle for it - but if the Australians wanted something you'd got to get it for them, or else.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Joan Jonker, Walking My Baby Back Home, →ISBN:",
          "text": "She could whistle for it now; she wouldn't get a penny from him even if she crawled on all fours.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Tess Read, The Secret Diary of Eric Cowell - Aged 6 1/2 months, →ISBN:",
          "text": "And if it was milk I was after from that environment I could clearly whistle for it.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1973, Doris Lessing, The Grass is Singing, →ISBN, page 96:",
          "text": "And as for ceilings, you can whistle for them. I have lived in this house for six years and it hasn't hurt me.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To request or ask for with no chance of success."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "request",
          "request"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To request or ask for with no chance of success."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see whistle, for."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "whistle",
          "whistle#English"
        ],
        [
          "for",
          "for#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-whistle for.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b3/En-au-whistle_for.ogg/En-au-whistle_for.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/En-au-whistle_for.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "kysellä turhaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "pouvoir toujours courir"
    }
  ],
  "word": "whistle for"
}