As its name suggests,
All Saints' Day
is a celebration in homage to all the saints.
Celebrated on November 1 by the Catholic Church, it is an opportunity to flower the graves of our deceased with chrysanthemums.
To discover
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What expressions are taken from the Bible?
There are those that are obvious.
"It's David against Goliath"
;
"To be in heaven"
,
"eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth"
... And then the others, more astonishing.
Formulas that we would never have imagined coming from the
Bible
.
"Screaming from the rooftops"
,
"a lean period"
to name a few.
On this day of All Saints' Day, not to be confused with the day of the dead which takes place on November 2,
Le Figaro invites
you to (re) discover the origin of the expressions you use daily and which come from the Holy Scriptures.
See also
All Saints' Day, feast of saints and the dead
For this, we relied on the enlightening work of Denis Moreau,
No one is a prophet in his country: these words of the Gospels at the origins of our familiar formulas
(Seuil) as well as the powerful book by François Claustres,
100 expressions drawn from religious culture
(Artège).
Will you go to the end of this test?
Le Figaro invites
you to discover it.
See also: No, All Saints' Day is not the feast of the dead
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