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five loaves and two fish
We all know the miracle that Jesus did when with 5 loaves and two fish he fed the crowd of five thousand. As an idiomatic expression, it means moving from the scarcity of poverty to the opulence of abundance.
Example: All the people want 5 loaves of bread and two pieces of fish.
If an economy can flourish on 5 loaves of bread and two fish, that will be heavenly wonderful.

Jericho wall
Well everyone knows the famous event of the Israelites who circled the wall of Jericho seven times and it fell. It was a miraculous feat. As an idiom, it means to accomplish things with little or no effort.
Example: Teaching for me is a Jericho Wall.
Will Israel’s plan to build the temple within sight of the mosque be a Jericho Wall?

spatial effect
Kevin Spacey, the American director and producer, faces charges of sexual assault against men. As an idiom, he means an older man who attracts younger men for sexual purposes.
Example: The Spacey effect is becoming more prominent in the gay world.
Will the courts offer impunity to those who have committed crimes with the Spacey effect?

word sword
It is said in the New Testament that the word of God is a double-edged sword. As an idiom, it means the power of the word over brute force.
Example: Mahatma Gandhi, the apostle of non-violence, used the sword of the word in his protest to free the Indians from British colonial rule.
Journalists embody the sword of the word when they take risks to cover news.

from the fish mouth
From the mouth of the fish comes from the New Testament when Christ asks his disciple to take a coin out of the mouth of the fish to pay taxes to Caesar. Thus we have the golden maxim: ‘give Caesar what is his and give me what is mine’. As an idiom, it means divine provision for someone who is afflicted with financial problems.
Example: I pray to Christ to grant me a coin from the mouth of the fish.
When will fish mouth occur in my life?
Winning an international jackpot will be a fish mouth for one lucky person.

The sling and the stone of David
We all know the biblical incident when the insignificant David with a slingshot and a stone killed the mighty Philistine Goliath. Because God David was a chosen one and gave David power to do the mighty work. As an idiom, it means to do the best with the scarce availability of resources.
Example: I wish I could use David’s sling and stone in all difficult circumstances.
Many writers achieve their works by adopting the sling and the stone of David.

demoid
Demoid is a neologism/idiom coined from Democracy and Schizoid. The afflatus of this creation comes from Catalonia that wants to become an independent nation, freely liberated from Spain. Spain has taken boastful measures to prevent their dissidence and disengagement. Demoid as an idiom and neologism refers to the authoritarianism bequeathed with shackles by a democracy to prevent the secession of its territory, province or state.
Example: Spain’s attempt to dirty and get rid of the secession of Catalonia to become a free democratic country is demoid.

semanticid
Semanticide comes from semantics and killing. I would like to use Semanticide in a Christian biblical context. Semanticide refers to the murder of semantic meaning in the history of the word (Bible) and transcendence to a higher realm of consciousness.
Example: Water baptism is semanticide when a metaphor transcends being and therefore we are crucified with Christ, then we die and then we rise again.
A child like faith in the Bible is Semanticide.
Christian apologetics uses semanticide.

Trumplomacy
Trump’s Trumplomacy and diplomacy is an idiom that can be related to the Bible. Jesus said: ‘be wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove’.
Example: we can refer to the Trumplomacy that is enacted against North Korea when Trump sweeps it away if it attacks democratic nations.

Qatar’s isolation is also an example of Trumplomacy

Chabahar
Chabahar is a strategic port in Iran. Pakistan’s refusal to transit India’s wheat to besieged Afghanistan resulted in India transporting goods from Chabahar. As an idiomatic expression, it means bringing goods into a battle-weary country through an exit point when a neighboring country denies the same.
Example: India’s goodwill gesture towards Afghanistan resulted in a Chabahar.
During the Berlin blockade, the United States became a Chabahar through the conduct of vittles operations.

Hallowe’en
Everyone is familiar with Halloween, a holiday celebrated with the staging of a commercialized market. Halloween as a holiday is of Celtic origin and is celebrated with the belief that the spirits of the dead return to earth. Halloween is pagan and satanic. As an idiom, Halloween means the commercialization of a pagan and satanic festival.
Example: Why should children be indoctrinated with Halloween?
Halloween enjoys the occult patronage of secret societies and has sterilized the masses into mental disability.
Halloween merchandising is vulgar, satanic, and demeaning to the intellect.

Peter the disciple
This idiom is taken from the New Testament. As the disciples were rowing the boat out to sea, they were besieged by a violent storm. At that time Jesus was sitting on the shore. He wailed out loud. So Jesus walked on the water and when he approached the boat, the disciples thought he was a ghost. Then Peter asked Jesus if you are the messiah, let me come to you and Jesus said ‘yes’. Pedro walked on the water and when he saw that the storm did not abate, he began to sink. Then Jesus caught him. As an idiom, it means rescue from a dangerous situation as a result of divine providence.
Example: Pedro the disciple has happened to me many times in my life.
We can be thankful to God when Peter the disciple happens in our lives.

Weinstein
Weinstein, the producer of the Mirmax studios, is notoriously known for sexually assaulting many women. As an idiomatic expression, Weinstein is known for sexual harassment and assault on women.
Example: Weinstein is plaguing many countries.
Is the Weinstein effect due to predatory genes enshrined in the brain of man when he began his life as a hunter?

hamburger emoji
Emoji refers to smiley faces or emoticons and hamburger is short for Burger. Twitter turned into a screaming bazaar with the tweet: why Google puts the emoji burger cheese below and why Apple puts it on top. To my damn surprise, this tweet was retweeted and received over 10,000 likes. Why are people obsessed with pseudo cultural avalanches? As an idiom, it means a satanic deification of the media by a gullible public. Who benefited from the emoji burger debate: Google (666 Mark of the Beast) and Apple (sinfully eating the fruit)
Example: Emoji Burger, a satanic deification of the media cult by gullible lambs, reveals a false entity of individualism caught up in the media cult frenzy.
Emoji Burgers turns people into cultural misanthropes.
Google and Apple moguls laugh and gleam with satanic delight at the sycophantic populace emoji bug syndrome.

Netsteem
Netsteem is derived from the internet and esteem. As an idiom, it means low self-esteem and dangerous personality crisis. There are thousands of Facebook users who keep changing their profile pictures, posting selfies and also writing trivia like: ‘I’m checking in at this airport and that one: blah blah blah’.
Example: Netsteem is low self-esteem.
Netsteem people are internally schizoid, cultural mavericks who indulge in selfish personality projection.
Tatmadaw
For most of you who are not familiar: TATMADAW is the official name of the Myanmar Army. In Myanmar, thousands of Rohingya Muslims, an ethnic minority, are fleeing the cat of nine tails imposed by the junta. As an idiom, it means ethnic cleansing of a religious minority by the armed forces.
Example: Rohingya bear the brunt of cruel whip belonging to Tatmadaw
Aung San Su Ki has not raised his fist in democratic protest against the Tatmadaw.

freud monster
Monster Freud woke up in me as an idiom when I had a dream and when I woke up I couldn’t remember its content. Monster Freud as an idiomatic expression means not remembering a dream.
Examples:
Yesterday I had a Monster Freud.
Most dreams are a Freud Monster to people.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre as an idiom means affirmation or negation in one’s existential thinking.
Examples:
When I realized that I was not selected after the interview, I became a Jean Paul Sartre.
When my adulterous lover asked me out on a date I became a Jean Paul Sartre.

Sisyphus myth
Camus popularized the myth of Sisyphus in his book and it means living the monotony of existence. In the myth, Sisyphus is forced to roll a rock uphill only to find that he rolls back down. The Myth of Sisyphus as an idiom means living an ironic life.
Example:
As a writer: I live the life of Sisyphus.
For Camus, life had no meaning and it was for him a Sisyphus.

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