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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
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Who coined the idiom - dining on ashes ?
  

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It comes from the Bible: To feed on ashes (Isaiah 44:20), means to seek that which will prove to be vain and unsatisfactory, and hence it denotes the unsatisfactory nature of idol-worship.

  • It comes from the Bible: To feed on ashes (Isaiah 44:20), means to seek that which will prove to be vain and unsatisfactory, and hence it denotes the unsatisfactory nature of idol-worship.
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It comes from the Bible:

To feed on ashes (Isaiah 44:20), means to seek that which will prove

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