Sodom and Gomorrah
English
Etymology
Two cities destroyed by God for their wickedness.[1]
Noun
- (simile) A city or place full of sin and vice.
- 2017 February 16, Chris Baynes, “Inside the world's sex capital: City dubbed ‘modern day Sodom and Gomorrah’ with highest number of prostitutes anywhere”, in Daily Mirror:
- Pattaya has a reported 27,000 prostitutes, roughly one for every five people living permanently in the east-coast city that has been likened to a modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah.
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Verb
Sodom and Gomorrah (third-person singular simple present Sodom and Gomorrahs, present participle Sodom and Gomorrahing, simple past and past participle Sodom and Gomorrahed)
- (rhyming slang) To borrow.
References
- The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1611, →OCLC, Genesis 19:24–25.: “Then the LORD rained vpon Sodome & vpon Gomorrah, brimstone and fire, from the LORD out of heauen.”
Further reading
Sodom and Gomorrah on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Jonathon Green (2024) “Sodom and Gomorrah v.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
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