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WktEN_sense_33844   

Instance of: lemon:LexicalSense
Property Value
lemon:definition Statement1
rdf:type lemon:SenseDefinition
lemon:value eng “A task whose execution is inordinately complex relative to the value of the outcome.”
lemon:value eng “Early recorded use refers to a type of 16th century horse race where everyone had to try to follow the erratic course of the lead horse, like wild geese have to follow their leader in formation. Mentioned in Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy (1621). Common use in the current may be the origin for the sport sense.[http://web.archive.org/web/20030429040246/phrases.shu.ac.uk/bulletin_board/5/messages/178.html]”
uby:definitionType “intensionalDefinition”
uby:statementType “etymology”
lemon:example WktEN_SenseExample_10891     More...
uby:index “2”
uby:monolingualExternalRef MonolingualExternalRef1
rdf:type uby:MonolingualExternalRef
uby:externalReference “41170:0:2”
uby:externalSystem “Wiktionary sense key”

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Is lemon:sense of WktEN_lexicalEntry_14740     More...


 

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