widow's cruse
widow's cruse · widow's cruses
An inexhaustible supply, often of something that appears meagerAn inexhaustible supply, often of something that appears meager.
Meaning
1 sensesAn inexhaustible supply, often of something that appears meager.
Origin
From the widow's cruse of oil that miraculously supplies Elijah during a famine (1 Kings 1From the widow's cruse of oil that miraculously supplies Elijah during a famine (1 Kings 17:8–16).
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