Expressions (A–Z)
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automatic fire
Rapid consecutive shooting with a single pull of the trigger.
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Bachlam Letters
Functional letters that also serve as prepositions to indicate syntactic relatio...
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battered woman
A woman whose husband habitually beats her.
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Be not afraid of the Pharisees but of the hypocrites
One should fear only the hypocrites and liars, not those who speak the truth. (T...
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Be not over-righteous
A proverb meaning one should not exaggerate in excessive righteousness, stringen...
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Be not wicked in your own sight
Do not adopt for yourself a self-image of a wicked person, or a low self-image a...
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Beam of light
A ray of light. Concentrated light emerging from a particular source and spreadi...
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Because of a trifle (because of a nail, a thing of no value) the city of Beitar was destroyed / to spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar
Figuratively: Because of gossip or hatred among brothers, a great disaster was c...
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Because of Kamtza and Bar Kamtza, Jerusalem was destroyed
Because of Kamtza and Bar Kamtza, Jerusalem was destroyed. By extension: because...
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Behind our wall / Just around the corner
Literally “behind our wall.” Figuratively: nearby or imminent — something that i...
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