Expressions (A–Z)
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Big Fish
By metaphor: a person important or possessing significant economic abilities.
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E
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Eats a stinking fish, gets whipped, and pays a hundred maneh
Figuratively: punished with every possible punishment. Foolishness that leads to...
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Fish in troubled waters
Figuratively: he sought to extract benefit as if from an inappropriate place. An...
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H
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He ate the rotten fish and was also driven out of the city
See: "Eats a foul fish, is whipped and pays a hundred maneh."
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If a leviathan was raised with a hook, what will the fish of the pond do?
See: "If a leviathan was raised with a hook, what will the fish of the pond do?"
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Paths of the seas / Sea routes
A poetic term for the paths or routes of the sea — the courses along which ships...
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Sea of Death
A nickname for the Dead Sea, in which no fish live.
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Small fish/ small fry/ common folk
Small fish. Fry. By analogy: a person insignificant or unimportant in the organi...
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the fish of the sea
All the living creatures found in the sea, such as fish and aquatic animals.
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The taste of a fish from Akko is not the same as one from Sidon and Asfameia
Figuratively: There are different flavors to different kinds of fish depending o...
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