widow's cruse
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of widow's cruse
First recorded in 1600–10
Example Sentences
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In the U.S. today, he adds grimly, "There is no widow's cruse."
From Time Magazine Archive
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The other 17 were dry as the widow's cruse, were rapidly deteriorating into a useless mass of rust.
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Never before in all his life had he known the widow's cruse.
From The Broken Gate A Novel by Hough, Emerson
She looked at the coffee-pot and for a moment thought enviously of the widow's cruse.
From Salthaven by Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark)
But an inventive genius may safely stay at home; that, like the widow's cruse, is divinely replenished from within, and affords us a miraculous delight.
From Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2 by Johnson, Samuel
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