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touch the hem of someone's garment
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An allusion to the Biblical tale (Matthew 9:20) of the woman who was cured of disease when she touched the hem of Christ's garment.
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touch the hem of someone's garment (三人称単数 現在形 touches the hem of someone's garment, 現在分詞 touching the hem of someone's garment, 過去形および過去分詞形 touched the hem of someone's garment)
- (idiomatic) To give respect or reverence to someone; to express servitude to someone; to draw strength or comfort from someone who is superior.
- 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, chapter 1, in Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, part I:
- Thus, at peace with God and the world, the farmer of Grand-Pré
Lived on his sunny farm, and Evangeline governed his household.
Many a youth, as he knelt in the church and opened his missal,
Fixed his eyes upon her, as the saint of his deepest devotion;
Happy was he who might touch her hand or the hem of her garment!
- 1994 March 9, Todd S. Purdum, "Clinton's Coming to New York, But Mayor May Skip Invitation," New York Times (retrieved 17 Sept 2013):
- 2001 June 24, Richard Lacayo, "A Hero's Welcome," Time (retrieved 17 Sept 2013):
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