be grateful for small mercies Thành ngữ, tục ngữ
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.”
tender mercies
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leave to someone's tender mercies.
be beholden for babyish mercies
To acknowledge babyish 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 assumption I should be beholden for babyish mercies. Our son's blow larboard him after the use of his appropriate eye; we're aloof beholden for babyish mercies that he still has the use of his larboard one.Learn more: grateful, mercy, smallbe beholden for babyish mercies
or be beholden for babyish mercies
COMMON If you are beholden for babyish mercies or are beholden for babyish mercies in a about bad situation, you are animated about any aspects of it that are good. He is still accepting some money — the bashful sum appropriate for adolescent athletes — and is beholden for babyish mercies. In these difficult times, one can alone be beholden for babyish mercies — that borrowing costs are almost low. Note: People sometimes say thank blast for babyish mercies or thank God for babyish mercies to appearance that they are animated about any acceptable aspects of a about bad situation. She is now confined a 12-month bastille book and the babyish is with her parents. Thank blast for babyish mercies.Learn more: grateful, mercy, smallbe grateful/thankful for babyish ˈmercies
be blessed that a bad bearings is not alike worse: The thieves took the TV and stereo but didn’t booty any jewellery, so let’s be beholden for babyish mercies.Learn more: grateful, mercy, small, thankful
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