haul (one's) ashes Thành ngữ, tục ngữ

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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.”

haul (one's) ashes

1. To leave or depart, abnormally with abundant haste. I'm action to breach your adenoids if you don't booty your ashes out of here!2. slang To appoint in animal activity, abnormally intercourse; to accomplish animal absolution or gratification. Also phrased as "get (one's) ashes hauled." After six months at sea, I was absolutely afraid to booty my ashes!Learn more: ash, haul

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