Expressions (A–Z)

T

• Tavin ve-Takilin/ good money/ hard cash/ "full weight coins"

  Figuratively: good money passes to the merchant. Or: a high price (literally fro...

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• The best of doctors to Gehenna/ Even the best of doctors deserves Hell (for sometimes causing death to his patients)

  Even the very best doctor will end up in Gehenna. A proverb meant to emphasize t...

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• The best of the land

  See: "from all the good ..."

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• The best way to deal with snakes is to crush their heads/ even with the best of snakes you had better break his neck (lit. crush his head)

  Figuratively: do not trust a con artist or swindler of any kind; one should figh...

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• The common good/ the benefit of the public/ the general good/ (for the public good)

  Something that is good for the benefit of the general public. The interests of t...

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• The fingernail of the earlier generations is better than the belly of the later generations/ our forefathers were much wiser than we ("their finger-nail was worth more than the belly of later generations")

  By way of analogy: the earlier generations are far greater in stature than the l...

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• The Last Drop of His Blood

  See: "He fought to the last drop of his blood."

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• The Mills of Justice Grind Slowly

  Court proceedings take much longer than is required to do justice.

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• The Mistake of His Life

  An act that a person does whose result causes him great harm, or one that change...

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• The nature of things, by the nature of things/ naturally/ in the nature of things

  The natural and ordinary course of things; according to the usual course of even...

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