Expressions (A–Z)
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An ox knows its owner, and a donkey its master's crib/ "the ox knows his owner and the ass his master's crib"
By extension: a person knows who they depend on and who cares for and provides f...
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As the case may be
Everything needs to be understood in its context. It depends on what subject is...
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Better that your sons ask from your hands than you ask from their hands.
A person should be careful with his money and be able support his children, inst...
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Da'chlei Nahma b'Nahma
See: “He ate bread with bread” (i.e., lived very frugally, sustaining himself on...
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Do not become dependent on people
See: 'He Needs the Creatures.'"
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Eat bread of kindness
Figuratively: lives at someone else’s expense; supported by another person’s wor...
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eat out of someone's hand
Earned a living and found his livelihood with someone...
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Hanging on a Great Tree
See: "Hanged on a large tree."
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He has no one to lean on but...
See: "We have none to lean on but our Father in Heaven".
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He who lays his hand again on the lower one
See: "Everyone who lays his hand again on the lower one."
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