"клином сойтись" meaning in Russian

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "кли́ном сойти́сь",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "klínom sojtísʹ",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "кли́ном сходи́ться",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "кли́ном сойти́сь",
        "2": "pf",
        "impf": "кли́ном сходи́ться"
      },
      "expansion": "кли́ном сойти́сь • (klínom sojtísʹ) pf (imperfective кли́ном сходи́ться)",
      "name": "ru-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "сойти́сь"
      },
      "name": "ru-conj-verb-see"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Russian",
  "lang_code": "ru",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Russian entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "In their view, all the world should hinge on but one man: everyone else does not exist, as though dead.",
          "ref": "1961 [1733], Pierre de Marivaux, translated by Ariadna Èfron, L'heureux stratagème, Moscow: Государственное книгоиздательство «Искусство», Act 1, Scene 4:",
          "roman": "Po ix mneniju, vesʹ belyj svet dlja nas dolžen klinom sojtisʹ na odnom-jedinstvennom čeloveke: vse pročije točno ne suščestvujut, kak budto oni umerli.",
          "text": "По их мнению, весь белый свет для нас должен клином сойтись на одном-единственном человеке: все прочие точно не существуют, как будто они умерли.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to be pivotal, to be caught in a cleft stick, to be in dire straits"
      ],
      "id": "en-клином_сойтись-ru-verb-L9JjYdhh",
      "links": [
        [
          "pivotal",
          "pivotal"
        ],
        [
          "caught",
          "catch"
        ],
        [
          "in a cleft stick",
          "in a cleft stick"
        ],
        [
          "dire straits",
          "dire straits"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) to be pivotal, to be caught in a cleft stick, to be in dire straits"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈklʲinəm sɐjˈtʲisʲ]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈklʲinəm sɐjˈtʲːisʲ]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "клином сойтись"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "кли́ном сойти́сь",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "klínom sojtísʹ",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "кли́ном сходи́ться",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "кли́ном сойти́сь",
        "2": "pf",
        "impf": "кли́ном сходи́ться"
      },
      "expansion": "кли́ном сойти́сь • (klínom sojtísʹ) pf (imperfective кли́ном сходи́ться)",
      "name": "ru-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "сойти́сь"
      },
      "name": "ru-conj-verb-see"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Russian",
  "lang_code": "ru",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Russian entries with incorrect language header",
        "Russian lemmas",
        "Russian multiword terms",
        "Russian perfective verbs",
        "Russian terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Russian terms with quotations",
        "Russian verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "In their view, all the world should hinge on but one man: everyone else does not exist, as though dead.",
          "ref": "1961 [1733], Pierre de Marivaux, translated by Ariadna Èfron, L'heureux stratagème, Moscow: Государственное книгоиздательство «Искусство», Act 1, Scene 4:",
          "roman": "Po ix mneniju, vesʹ belyj svet dlja nas dolžen klinom sojtisʹ na odnom-jedinstvennom čeloveke: vse pročije točno ne suščestvujut, kak budto oni umerli.",
          "text": "По их мнению, весь белый свет для нас должен клином сойтись на одном-единственном человеке: все прочие точно не существуют, как будто они умерли.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to be pivotal, to be caught in a cleft stick, to be in dire straits"
      ],
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        [
          "pivotal",
          "pivotal"
        ],
        [
          "caught",
          "catch"
        ],
        [
          "in a cleft stick",
          "in a cleft stick"
        ],
        [
          "dire straits",
          "dire straits"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) to be pivotal, to be caught in a cleft stick, to be in dire straits"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈklʲinəm sɐjˈtʲisʲ]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈklʲinəm sɐjˈtʲːisʲ]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "клином сойтись"
}