dust and ashes Idiom, Proverb
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Dine on ashes
I someone is dining on ashes he or she is excessively focusing attention on failures or regrets for past actions.
One hand washes the other
This idiom means that we need other people to get on as cooperation benefits us all.
Reduce to ashes
If something is reduced to ashes, it is destroyed or made useless. His infidelities reduced their relationship to ashes.
Rise from the ashes
If something rises from the ashes, it recovers after a serious failure.
Wear sackcloth and ashes
If someone displays their grief or contrition publicly, they wear sackcloth and ashes.
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v. phr. To rise from ruin; start anew.
A year after flunking out of medical school, Don rose from the ashes and passed his qualifying exams for the M.D. with honors.
sackcloth and ashes
sackcloth and ashes Mourning or penitence, as in
What I did to Julie's child was terrible, and I've been in sackcloth and ashes ever since. This term refers to the ancient Hebrew custom of indicating humility before God by wearing a coarse cloth, normally used to make sacks, and dusting oneself with ashes. In English it appeared in William Tyndale's 1526 biblical translations (Matthew 11:21), “They [the cities Tyre and Sidon] had repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.”
dust and ashes
Something that promises amusement or accomplishment but after-effects in disappointment or disillusionment. The byword is acclimated in the Bible to call the abhorrent aftertaste of an appealing-looking fruit. She was a shopaholic until she accomplished that actual backing are annihilation but dust and ashes.Learn more: and, ash, dustdust and ashes
acclimated to back a activity of abundant disappointment or abort about something. Often begin in the fuller anatomy turn to dust and ashes in your mouth , the byword is acclimated in the Bible as a allegory for worthlessness, for archetype in Genesis 18:27 and the Book of Job 30:19. It derives from the fable of the Sodom apple, or Dead Sea fruit, whose adorable actualization tempted people, but which tasted alone of dust and ashes back eaten.Learn more: and, ash, dust