cruse

Related to cruse: widow's cruse

widow's cruse

A supply source that seems as if it is or should be meager or limited but ends up being or seeming limitless. Despite claims that the company needed to scale back pay for all its employees, the CEO's salary seems to be drawn from a widow's cruse, as it has only ever gone up in recent years. Education is the only true widow's cruse. The benefits gleaned by children and adults at any level of education is many times what must be put into the system.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

a widow's cruse

an apparently small supply that proves inexhaustible.
In the Bible, 1 Kings 17 tells the story of the widow to whom Elijah was sent for sustenance. When he asked her for bread, she replied that all she had for herself and her son was ‘an handful of meal in a barrel and a little oil in a cruse’ (a cruse was a small earthenware pot or jar). Elijah told her to make him a cake from these ingredients and then to make food for herself and her son as God had decreed that the containers should be continually replenished.
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Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • a widow's cruse
  • widow's cruse
  • cold comfort
  • be cold comfort
  • ends
  • on the back of a postage stamp
  • make ends meet, to
  • fishy
  • best-laid plans of mice and men oft go astray
  • oft
References in periodicals archive
Cruse is expanding its work with the Military Family, following an award of over half a million pounds by the Ministry of Defence.
Cruse Bereavement Care is there to help; ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE
To contact Cruse, call the national helpline on 0808 808 1677 or visit cruse.org.uk.
Don't let a loss defeat you too; Healthy YOU
Two defendants were jailed for life for murder, while Cruse and four others were cleared of murder but convicted of manslaughter.
How 'cocky and excitable' baby-faced menace was unmasked as a killer with a violent past; Ben Cruse, who went on the run in Newcastle, was named as part of the 'mob' convicted of killing Shane Tunney when the past caught up with him
Cruse then allegedly reached into his pocket for what the guard claimed looked like a knife.
Unmasked - the cocky teen jailed for vicious attack; 'COWARD', 19, BEAT MAN TO DEATH THEN POSTED TAUNTS ON FACEBOOK
Tom Cruse dives over to score a try during the European Rugby Champions Cup match between Wasps and Ulster Rugby (Photo by Henry Browne/Getty Images)
Wasps v Ulster: Wasps go out of Europe with a bang; Wasps end their Pool One campaign with a 26-7 win over Ulster
Mark has pushed us not to get too comfortable." When Bradley and Cruse mentioned to him they were thinking about offering a wider selection of handmade items on their website so more military spouses would have business opportunities, Cuban encouraged them to move forward right away.
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Allan explains: "Cruse do amazing work and because they don't put a time limit on grief - irrespective of how long ago your loss occurred - they are there to help.
I miss mum so much.. now I want my hit single to help those who've lost a loved one; DAILYRECORD.CO.UK PAGE 29 LIVING LIFE TO THE FULL Allan Jay releases The Best is Yet to Come in memory of Eileen - with proceeds from the sale going to support bereavement charity Cruse
Help Cruse at www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/gill-herbert
Cash crisis for counselling phoneline
Cruse Bereavement Care offers individual and group support following the death of someone close.
Teens hungry to raise bereavement charity cash
The Bereavement Support Service will be provided by the UK's leading bereavement support charity, Cruse Bereavement Care, in partnership with Marie Curie.
Marie Curie and Cruse partner for pilot bereavement service
The Cruse Crew launched in August with the aim of raising the total in 12 months or Cruse Bereavement Care Tyneside.
Charity nears cash target
Police and medics found that Bobby Cruse, 19, suffered a broken femur and scratches when he was hit by his grand mother's 1997 Chevrolet Lumina sedan, officials said.
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Here, we find him grappling with it as early as 1969 in the cleverly named "The Crisis of Harold Cruse," and again in 2005, in his most developed analysis of Black/Africana Studies, "Black Studies, the Talented Tenth, and the Organic Intellectual." (3) Harold Cruse's deeply flawed yet often captivating classic, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, stimulated Chrisman's initial engagement with this question.
Organic intellectual: Robert Chrisman and the construction of a black radical scholar's activist legacy
Cruse (French, Arizona State U.) says the 14th-century manuscript contains the most textually complete version of the expanded French Romance of Alexander the Great; preserves the most copiously illustrated copy of the text; has the largest folios of any manuscript of the text; contains the most full-page miniatures (9 out of an original 13) of any French romance manuscript; is among the most extensive and accurate depictions of knightly costume and heraldry of the period; and is the only manuscript to have the musical notation for a widely copied rondeau.
Illuminating the Roman d'Alexandre; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 264; the manuscript as monument
That said, according to Cruse Bereavement Care (CBC), there are things we can say or do to help someone who is suffering from a bereavement.
Simple ways to show you care in times of great loss; ADVERTISING FEATURE COPING WITH BEREAVEMENT