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...f the [[Sermon on the Mount]]. This verse presents the second of a pair of metaphors explaining the benefits of prayer. :Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? ...

...35|publisher=Michael O'Mara Books }}</ref> Other variations include "buy a fish in water" (Arabic), "buy a cow on another mountain" (Chinese), "buy in a cl ...'[[caveat emptor]]'' principle applies where there has been no opportunity to inspect goods.</ref><ref>[[Sale of Goods Act 1979]]</ref> ...

...ription|Idiom of Biblical origin to describe those playing a role contrary to their real character}} ...arlier than the 12th century [[Common Era|CE]], have been falsely credited to ancient Greek storyteller [[Aesop]] (620–564 BCE). The confusion arises fro ...

...verses 47–52.<ref>{{bibleverse|Matthew|13:47–52}}</ref> The parable refers to the [[Last Judgment]].{{sfn|France|1985|p=230}} This parable is the seventh ...]]'' and the [[Gospel of Thomas]]. In the Gospel of Thomas, it is referred to as the Parable of the Fisherman.{{sfn|Morrice|2016|pp=269–273}} ...

{{Short description|Fallacious approach to mislead an audience}} ...the detective [[Sherlock Holmes]] examines a clue which is later revealed to be intentionally misleading.]] ...

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...w Qing dynasty. Fearing that he would also be purged and executed, he fled to a Buddhist temple and learned the teachings of [[Zen|Chan (Zen) Buddhism]], ...itle=Painting and Politics: Eccentricity and Political Dissent in Zhu Da's Fish and Rocks |journal=The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art |volume=76 | ...

...en other parts of its body, until the camel is entirely inside and refuses to leave.<ref>{{cite book | author = Anonymous | title = The Child's Companion ...above says, "The Arabs repeat a fable", and Sigourney says in a footnote, "To illustrate the danger of the first approach of evil habit, the Arabs have a ...

{{Short description|Figure of speech in which something is referred to by the name of an associated thing}} ...ry|publisher=}}</ref> For example, the word "[[wikt:suit|suit]]" may refer to a person from groups commonly wearing business attire, such as business exe ...

...ess]], or to express the difficulty of sequencing actions where each seems to depend on others being done first. [[Plutarch]] posed the question as a phi .... However, later [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] philosophers began to question this solution.<ref name="Fabry" /> [[Carlo Roberto Dati|Carlo Dati ...

{{Short description|Letter accounting Portuguese arrival to present-day Brazil}} ...rival in this country.<ref name="nowell 1936" /> This letter is considered to be the first document of Brazilian history as much as its first literary te ...

...Monthly 2002"/> Variations include '''rice rocket''', referring most often to Japanese [[superbike]]s, '''rice machine''', '''rice grinder''' or simply ' ...rs or car enthusiasts as imposters or wanna-bes, using cheap modifications to imitate the appearance of high performance. ...

...ter it was published, Eliot considered including the poem as a [[preface]] to ''[[The Waste Land]]'', but was talked out of this by [[Ezra Pound]].<ref n ...'Ara Vos Prec'', "Gerontion" was almost the only poem he had never offered to the public before and was placed first in both volumes.<ref>Kirk 53</ref> ...

{{short description|Allegation of using gimmicks to retain audience}} ...he phrase was coined in 1985 by radio personality [[Jon Hein]] in response to a 1977 episode from the fifth season of the American sitcom ''[[Happy Days] ...

...that contain the word [[:wikt:effect|“effect”]], amplified by reference(s) to their respective fields of study. ...ny editors and readers, it would be convenient for editors simply to refer to the Wikipedia categories on the respective pages. --> ...

...nsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&LEMA=lunfardo Definition of the word "Lunfardo"according to the RAE.]</ref> ...languages and dialects produced due to the massive [[European immigration to the Americas|European immigration]], mainly Italian and Spanish, which arri ...

...on [[hierarchy problem|quantum corrections]]. He may have even found a way to express [[Calabi–Yau manifold]]s in a way that goes beyond a [[Zero of a fu ...ed in "Double Down", an episode that focused on a gambling ring. He wanted to prove the power of mathematics. Dr. Fleinhardt has been teaching for 20 yea ...

...e has been called "Gorgias the [[Nihilism|Nihilist]]", although the degree to which this epithet adequately describes his philosophy is controversial.<re ...ransplanted rhetoric from his native Sicily to [[Attica]], and contributed to the diffusion of the [[Attic Greek|Attic dialect]] as the language of liter ...

...w.greggeasterbrook.com/news/159 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The column moved to ''[[The Weekly Standard]]'' for the 2017 NFL season, debuting on August 22, ...d the general trend of pushing events earlier and earlier (which he refers to as the "[[Unified field theory|Unified Field Theory]] of Creep"). ...

{{Short description|Stock character that draws allusions to biblical Jesus}} ...as a '''Christ-Image''', is a [[literary technique]] that the author uses to draw [[allusion]]s between their [[Character (arts)|character]]s and the bi ...