Elijah's cup

American  

noun

1. a cup of wine customarily set apart in honor of the prophet Elijah at the Jewish Passover Seder.

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Example Sentences

Gassner immersed herself in the autism community and started attending conferences and reading biographies by other women on the spectrum, such as Valerie Paradiz’s “Elijah’s Cup” and Liane Holliday Willey’s “Pretending to Be Normal.”

From Washington Post

Today, he always uses red for Elijah’s cup, as it “symbolizes the blood spilled during the exodus from Egypt,” he says.

From Washington Post

Uncle Sam handed around the large cut-crystal goblet, Elijah’s cup, and everyone poured a little bit of wine from their own glasses into it.

From Literature

While inside-Seder information — about the 4 sons, the 10 plagues, Elijah’s cup — is dispensed as freely as macaroons, her play is steeped in universal themes audiences of any affiliation can appreciate.

From New York Times