When I was a kid, what I most hated was when my dad nagged me ad nauseum about something I already knew: “Don’t read in such dim light, or your eyes will go bad. Don’t read slouching in bed, otherwise your eyes will go bad.” (I didn’t think about how he might be tired...
I peeled my eyes. Adult: Oh well. Next time we’ll both keep our eyes peeled and we’ll be sure to see it. (This helpful adult understood the child had attempted to use an idiom. Instead of saying You’ve got that wrong, the adult used the idiom correctly in her own speech – ...
If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep your flocks: 32 Let me pass through all your flock today, removing from there all the speckled and spotted sheep, and all the brown ones among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and these shall be...
31 But Jacob said, “·First [L As the day; C an idiom meaning, “First of all…”]·sell [or exchange with] me your ·rights as the firstborn son [birthright; C the firstborn had special inheritance rights and became the head of the family in the next generation].” 32 ...
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So Jacob took an oath in the name of the Fear of his father Isaac. Footnotes Genesis 25:20 That is, Northwest Mesopotamia Genesis 25:25 Esau may mean hairy. Genesis 25:26 Jacob means he grasps the heel, a Hebrew idiom for he deceives. Genesis 25:30 Edom means red. Genesis 26:4 Or...
Idioms: be on guard, be on the lookout, keep an eye peeled , take care.2. To renew an image or thought in the mind: bethink, recall, recollect, remember, reminisce, retain, revive, think. Idiom: bring to mind.3. To perceive with a special effort of the senses or the mind: ...