Do you know what this sentence mean? "...“Yours not to grind the Lord into your head and spit out a number!" The context is about questioning God's mind, and here this sentence is said in response to this question: "“Ask the Lord why He made him an idiot in the first place, uncle. Tell him I want to know why!”
Please guide me to know what's the meaning of that first sentence.
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It seems to mean Don't try to understand why *** does things. Clive
— Clive
It seems to mean Don't try to understand why *** does things.
Clive
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Yep, but it looks like an idiom. Icould understand each of them in separation, but what's the relation between number and grind? Is number here the price of that ground Lord? Or it is the weight of it? or something else?
yep, but it looks like an idiom. Icould understand each of them in separation, but what's the relation between number and grind? Is number here the price of that ground Lord? Or it is the weight of it? or something else?
No, it's not an idiom. As I said at the start, it's just an odd sentence. If someone said this to me, I'd say eg 'I have no isea what you mea