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Definition of widow's cruse in English: widow's crusenoun An apparently small supply that proves inexhaustible. information is infinitely reproducible without diminishing it: it is a veritable widow's cruse Example sentencesExamples - In Susan's courtyard, the little well is a widow's cruse, which never dries, even in the severe season of drought.
- A widow's cruse was a jar of oil which was never allowed to run out, signifying that the community would support the bereaved person for as long as was needed.
- And so all the paradoxes of thrift, widow's cruses, and so on become irrelevant.
- We don't know how God kept the widow's cruse supplied with oil, and why she never ran out of flour during that long dry spell.
- It often seemed to Connie that her sons thought of the refrigerator as a widow's cruse of food that would magically restock itself every week.
Origin With biblical allusion to 1 Kings 17:10–16. |