Expressions (A–Z)
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After the holidays
After the Jewish High Holidays (Rosh Hashanah through Simchat Torah). Often used...
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Alternative argument
An additional argument raised in the alternative, so that if the first argument...
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Do not say to your neighbor: Go and come again and tomorrow I will give, when you have it by you
Do not postpone giving your friend what is rightfully theirs. Do not put them of...
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He has no desire for it
He does not want it. He shows no interest in it.
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He turned his face away empty
See: "They returned empty-handed."
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No need
Figuratively: I am not interested. A polite response to decline an offer.
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Postponed the End
He postponed the matter again and again; he took actions to delay the end (the e...
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Slam the door in his face
Figuratively, to shut him out from entry or from the possibility of joining; to...
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the stone which the builders rejected has become the chief corner-stone
A proverb meaning that things once dismissed as unimportant may later prove to b...
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There is no desire for it / It is of no use
See: "Like a vessel for which there is no desire."
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