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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: Job 19:20 #142500 05/03/05 04:57 AM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA "Escaped with the skin of my teeth" is a literal translation of the Hebrew. But its meaning is a pun on a very similar sounding phrase meaning "with great difficulty or barely." The Ancient Jews loved their puns and turned them into figures of speech. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Guffaw orchard 04/26/05 11:22 PM Re: Guffaw Saranita 04/27/05 05:50 PM Re: Guffaw Father Steve 04/27/05 06:59 PM skin of my teeth ctjones@eee.org 05/01/05 05:05 PM Re: skin of my teeth Saranita 05/01/05 05:18 PM Job 19:20 Father Steve 05/02/05 12:43 AM Re: Job 19:20 Faldage 05/02/05 10:21 AM Re: Job 19:20 Elizabeth Creith 05/02/05 01:19 PM Re: Job 19:20 maverick 05/02/05 02:53 PM Re: Job 19:20 Father Steve 05/03/05 04:57 AM Re: Job 19:20 inselpeter 05/03/05 05:36 AM Re: Job 19:20 Father Steve 05/03/05 06:52 PM Re: Job 19:20 Jackie 05/03/05 02:11 PM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,342 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 1 members (A C Bowden), 429 guests, and 1 robot. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 30 A C Bowden 20 LukeJavan8 1 ddrinnan 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,546 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,917 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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