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Pooh-pooh lavishly wasteful (young) man the young man in jesus' parable (luke, 15: 11-32) wastes his fortune until he has nothing left, whereupon he repents of his ways, returns to his father and is made welcome: see kill the fatted calf. Scripture does not actually call him 'the prodigal son' but a chapter heading in the english translation does. The prodigal returns is a jocular catchphrase of welcome from the same source.
At the limit of one's endurance a tether is a fixed rope or chain to which an animal is tied, enabling it to move or graze within a limited area but preventing it from straying. The earliest metaphorical use (16th century) has to do with living 'within one's tether', i.E. Within one's resources. The sense of frustration at being restricted by a tether is a later development.
Tasmania, Australia has the cleanest air in the inhabited world.
It takes one fifteen-to-twenty-year-old tree to produce seven hundred paper grocery bags.
Barbie’s measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33
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