Expressions (A–Z)
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Time of Danger
See: "Hour of the Dead."
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To deliver a friend from danger/ to drive the wolf from your friend's door
Figuratively: rescued his friend from great distress. Removed a harmful thing or...
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To escape a dire troube/ the snare is broken and we escaped
Figuratively: we were saved from distress. We escaped from a snare/trap. Or meta...
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To throw stones at the fallen/to add insult to injury/ to hit a man when he is down
By metaphor: to continue harming a person who is already injured and collapsed....
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Torments of Sheol, the straits of Sheol
By metaphor: great suffering; painful, severe troubles. (Sheol means the realm o...
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Was called before him
Time for him. Bring him in a way that seems like it's in the right place.
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Weakness / Inability / Helplessness
Powerlessness. Inability to cope with a problem (originally referring to lack of...
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Woe to him if he does... and woe to him if he does not...
Woe to him if he acts one way, and woe to him if he acts the other; in either ca...
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Woe to me that I have seen you like this
I am very distressed to see you in such a difficult state. I share in your pain.
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Woe to… / alas and alack!
Something bad or bitter will befall…; the person will be in distress…; an expres...
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