walking on water

Cultural  

1. A miraculous act performed by Jesus, according to the Gospels. They record that Jesus walked on the Sea of Galilee to rejoin his disciples, who had departed ahead of him in a ship. When he reached the ship, the winds that had been blowing stopped, and the disciples worshiped him as the true son of God.

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Figuratively, to “walk on water” is to perform an impossible or godlike task: “When I told him the project had to be done by Tuesday, he made me feel as though I were asking him to walk on water.”

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The puteketeke eats its own feathers to line its stomach and then vomits to expel parasites, makes grunting and growling sounds, and engages in mating dances such as the "weed dance" where the birds offers each other water weed and the "ghostly penguin" where they rise chest to chest while walking on water.

From Reuters

As the sun sets, it can look like people are walking on water.

From Seattle Times

Featuring giant flowers bigger than people and episodes of walking on water, the fantastical in this novel feels as true to the Cairo of today as the parts that are lifted from life.

From New York Times

“Between Obamacare and the stimulus, by July of Obama’s first year, he went from walking on water to completely upside-down.”

From Seattle Times

It was the subject of the documentary “Walking on Water,” released last year.

From New York Times