"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",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "84 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"for\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "79 21",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "77 23",
          "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",
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Joan Jonker, Walking My Baby Back Home",
          "text": "She could whistle for it now; she wouldn't get a penny from him even if she crawled on all fours.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Tess Read, The Secret Diary of Eric Cowell - Aged 6 1/2 months",
          "text": "And if it was milk I was after from that environment I could clearly whistle for it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1973, Doris Lessing, The Grass is Singing, 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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To ask for with no chance of success."
      ],
      "id": "en-whistle_for-en-verb-QK7M2Y8Y",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To ask for with no chance of success."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "kysellä turhaan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "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"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs formed with \"for\"",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs",
    "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",
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Joan Jonker, Walking My Baby Back Home",
          "text": "She could whistle for it now; she wouldn't get a penny from him even if she crawled on all fours.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Tess Read, The Secret Diary of Eric Cowell - Aged 6 1/2 months",
          "text": "And if it was milk I was after from that environment I could clearly whistle for it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1973, Doris Lessing, The Grass is Singing, 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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To ask for with no chance of success."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To 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"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "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"
}