widow's cruse

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An inexhaustible supply, often of something that appears meager.
    — Thus profits, as a source of capital increment for entrepreneurs, are a widow's cruse which remains undepleted however much of them may be devoted to riotous living.

词形变化

widow's cruses plural widow's cruise alternative

词源

From the widow's cruse of oil that miraculously supplies Elijah during a famine (1 Kings 17:8–16).
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