give thanks for small mercies イディオム
leave to someone's tender mercies
leave to someone's tender mercies Submit to another's power or discretion, especially to an unsympathetic individual. Today this expression is always used ironically, as in
We left him to the tender mercies of that stiff-necked, arrogant nurse. It alludes to a biblical passage (Proverbs 12:10): “A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast; but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.”
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leave to someone's tender mercies.
give acknowledgment for baby mercies
To acknowledge baby or accessory benefits, advantages, or opportunities one is afforded, decidedly in the bosom of an contrarily difficult, frustrating, or adverse bearings or circumstance. My car's air conditioning chock-full alive two hours into my cross-country alley cruise beyond America. The radio still works, though, so I accept I should accord acknowledgment for baby mercies. Our son's blow larboard him after the use of his appropriate eye; we're aloof giving acknowledgment for baby mercies that he still has the use of his larboard one.Learn more: give, mercy, small, thanks