Abraham's bosom

Abraham's bosom

figurative Where the righteous go after death. The phrase alludes to Abraham, the first Biblical patriarch. I know it's a sad time, but we just have to keep in mind that Grandma is in a much better place now, at Abraham's bosom, than in the hospital.
See also: bosom
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • Abraham
  • apron
  • apron string
  • burned out, to be
  • be pushing up (the) daisies
  • be pushing up daisies
  • be pushing up the daisies
  • a Judas kiss
  • don't jump the gun
  • donkey's ears
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Plainly paradise is not in hell, and Jerome cannot have replied: `I say this, that Abraham's bosom is the true paradise, but I admit the holy man's bosom to be paradise too.'(12) There is a clear contrast between true paradise (paradisi veritas), which was yet to be attained, and the approximation to paradise, which was Abraham's bosom in infernus.
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The forest is his Egypt, his "land of bondage" Hassel precisely skewers Falstaff--he is "characteristically both flippant and informed about biblical matters," especially when he claims that Bardolph's "red nose" reminds him of "hell-fire and Dives," the sybarite who burns in hell while Lazarus flies to Abraham's bosom (99).
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And if the saints being transported to Abraham's bosom looked a trifle self-righteous, that devil with a pitchfork really didn't bear thinking about.
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