rake over the ashes Идиома

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ashes

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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.

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One hand washes the other

This idiom means that we need other people to get on as cooperation benefits us all.

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Reduce to ashes

If something is reduced to ashes, it is destroyed or made useless. His infidelities reduced their relationship to ashes.

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Rise from the ashes

If something rises from the ashes, it recovers after a serious failure.

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Wear sackcloth and ashes

If someone displays their grief or contrition publicly, they wear sackcloth and ashes.

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rise from the ashes|ash|ashes|rise

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.

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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.”

rake over the ashes

To revisit, accompany up, or atom the anamnesis of article that happened in the past, abnormally article unpleasant. Now, now, there's no charge to rake over the ashes, that altercation we had happened a continued time ago.Learn more: ash, over, rake

rake over the ˈashes/the ˈpast

(informal, disapproving) altercate with somebody abhorrent things that happened amid you in the past: When they met anniversary added again, ten years afterwards the divorce, they both approved adamantine not to rake over the past.Learn more: ash, over, past, rake

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