ewe lamb
ewe lamb a person's most cherished possession; originally with biblical allusion to 2 Samuel 12, ‘But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb’, the words with which the prophet Nathan rebuked David for taking the wife of Uriah the Hittite from him.
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Poolman, Kenneth 1924- , poor / poŏr; pôr/ • adj. 1. lacking sufficient money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in a society: people who were too poor to… Herbert Louis Samuel 1st Viscount Samuel , Samuel, Sir Herbert, 1st Viscount Samuel (1870–1963). Samuel's father, who died when Samuel was 7, was a Jewish banker. After taking a first in histo… Possession , The ownership, control, or occupancy of a thing, most frequently land orpersonal property, by a person.
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