ashes Idiom

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ashes

cannabis

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Dine on ashes

I someone is dining on ashes he or she is excessively focusing attention on failures or regrets for past actions.

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One hand washes the other

This idiom means that we need other people to get on as cooperation benefits us all.

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Reduce to ashes

If something is reduced to ashes, it is destroyed or made useless. His infidelities reduced their relationship to ashes.

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Rise from the ashes

If something rises from the ashes, it recovers after a serious failure.

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Wear sackcloth and ashes

If someone displays their grief or contrition publicly, they wear sackcloth and ashes.

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rise from the ashes|ash|ashes|rise

v. phr. To rise from ruin; start anew. A year after flunking out of medical school, Don rose from the ashes and passed his qualifying exams for the M.D. with honors.

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sackcloth and ashes

sackcloth and ashes
Mourning or penitence, as in What I did to Julie's child was terrible, and I've been in sackcloth and ashes ever since. This term refers to the ancient Hebrew custom of indicating humility before God by wearing a coarse cloth, normally used to make sacks, and dusting oneself with ashes. In English it appeared in William Tyndale's 1526 biblical translations (Matthew 11:21), “They [the cities Tyre and Sidon] had repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.”