"arm wie eine Laus" meaning in German

See arm wie eine Laus in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Etymology: Literally, “poor as a louse”. Head templates: {{de-adj|predonly}} arm wie eine Laus (indeclinable, predicative only)
  1. (simile) poor as a rat Tags: indeclinable, predicative Synonyms: arm wie eine Kirchenmaus
    Sense id: en-arm_wie_eine_Laus-de-adj-90j0hog8 Categories (other): German entries with incorrect language header, German similes

Download JSON data for arm wie eine Laus meaning in German (0.8kB)

{
  "etymology_text": "Literally, “poor as a louse”.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "predonly"
      },
      "expansion": "arm wie eine Laus (indeclinable, predicative only)",
      "name": "de-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "German",
  "lang_code": "de",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "German entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "German similes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "poor as a rat"
      ],
      "id": "en-arm_wie_eine_Laus-de-adj-90j0hog8",
      "links": [
        [
          "poor as a rat",
          "poor as a rat"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "simile",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(simile) poor as a rat"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "arm wie eine Kirchenmaus"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "indeclinable",
        "predicative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "arm wie eine Laus"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "Literally, “poor as a louse”.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "predonly"
      },
      "expansion": "arm wie eine Laus (indeclinable, predicative only)",
      "name": "de-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "German",
  "lang_code": "de",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "German adjectives",
        "German entries with incorrect language header",
        "German lemmas",
        "German multiword terms",
        "German similes",
        "German uncomparable adjectives"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "poor as a rat"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "poor as a rat",
          "poor as a rat"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "simile",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(simile) poor as a rat"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "arm wie eine Kirchenmaus"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "indeclinable",
        "predicative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "arm wie eine Laus"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable German dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-20 using wiktextract (1b9bfc5 and 0136956). 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.