blow [bləʊ] n. 击;打击 blow (blew, blown) [bləʊ] v. 吹;刮风;吹气 blue [bluː] n. 蓝色 a.蓝色的 a. 悲伤的;沮丧的 board [bɔːd] n. 木板;布告牌;委员会;(政府的)部 v. 上(船、火车、飞机) boat [bəʊt] n. 小船, 小舟 boat--race [bəʊt...
; "Did you get my meaning?"; "He could not work the math problem" break - find a flaw in; "break an alibi"; "break down a proof" 52. break - change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another; "Her voice broke to a whisper when she started to talk about her ...
Today Nod retains the meaning of sleep. In the nighttime, when human beings … are absent in the Land of Nod. (Chambers, Journal of Popular Literature, 1900) saw wood To sleep soundly; to snore. This expression came into popular use in the early 20th century primarily as a result of ...
[7]The wordfriend(NKJV) andkinsman(KJV) in this verse is taken from a Hebrew idiom best translated “Mr. So and So.” It is translated as such in the Tanakh. This idiom is said to have been used when it was not deemed essential to use the person’s actual name. Some think they ...
it as a religious tract. It’s a story of how we build up individuals only to tear them down. We see it in celebrity culture all the time, how the mob (these days, usually on the internet) can turn against someone they once supported and venerated. Secular meaning is still meaning. ...
An idiom’s figurative meaning is different from the literal meaning. List of Idioms – Created by 7ESL Idioms are things that people say or write that when taken literally, don’t make sense. This can be quite confusing, but essentially they are ‘sayings’ or ‘phrases’ that are ...
Coup de grce Death blow; a finishing stroke.Coup d’¾ tat The sudden, forcible overthrow of a government; coup.Couture The business of designing new fashions in womans’ clothes.Crème de la crème The best of the best.Crescendo A gradual increase in loudness or intensity....
” Some suggest this has to do with barrenness. Others say that it has to do with infidelity. Robert Alter points out that the same idiom appears in Deuteronomy 23:14 (v. 15 in his text) and denotes prohibited sexual nakedness. The jury remains out of what was meant, but when we ...
Like the English word soul, it comes from the Gothicsaiwalaand the Old Germansaiu’alô, and these can be connected with the Greekaiolos, mobile, coloured, iridescent. The Greek wordpsychealso means butterfly.Saiwalôis related on the other side the old slavonic wordsila, meaning strength...
The expression “to walk after” is an idiom meaning “to be loyal to.” See S. M. Paul, Amos (Hermeneia), 75-76.sn Here the idolatry of the parents carried over to the children, who persisted in worshiping the idols to which their fathers were loyal. Amos 2:6 tn For this ...