| 词组 | weigh something in the balance |
| 释义 | ☞ The image is of a pair of old-fashioned scales with two pans in which the positive and negative aspects of something can be set against each other. The expanded phrase weighed in the balance and found wanting meaning 'having failed to meet the test of a particular situation' is also found, and is an allusion to the biblical book of Daniel, where such a process formed part of the judgement made on King Belshazzar. |
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