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Erisnimet
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Määritelmät

Erisnimet

  1. (biblical) A minor prophet who was cast into the sea and swallowed by a whale.
  2. A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.
  3. (Quran) The 10th sura (chapter) of the Quran
  4. (nautical, slang) A person who brings a ship bad luck.
  5. (slang, by extension of the nautical sense) Any person or object which is deemed to cause bad luck; a jinx.

Esimerkit

  • 'It's Jonah,' Ted says.
  • Simmy considers this. 'As in the whale?'
  • 'Yep.'
  • 'You know,' Simmy says, 'that people are going to say that to him for ever more?'
  • 'What? The whale thing?'
  • 'Yes.'
  • Ted shrugs again. 'Well. He'll get used to it. All names have got some associations. Anyway, he looks like a Jonah. And I like the name Jonah—'
  • 'Obviously,' Simmy cuts in, 'since you chose it.'
  • So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.
  • ‘My first agent, and he's dead. It's incredible. I feel like a complete Jonah.’

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