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Sodom and Gomorrah

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What does Sodom and Gomorrah mean?

noun

  1. (figuratively) A city or place full of sin and vice.

verb

  1. (slang) To borrow.

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The inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah and the three other cities of the plain were sinful and godless.
Louis GinzbergThe Legends of the Jews — Volume 1Translated by Henrietta SzoldProject Gutenberg ebook #1493
Returning to Portsmouth they embarked on May 22nd, and soon found they were “to dwell in Sodom and Gomorrah” during their voyage.
Adelaide L. (Adelaide Lisetta) FriesThe Moravians in Georgia, 1735-1740Project Gutenberg ebook #570
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The two most famous volcanoes of Europe are Sodom and Gomorrah.
Mark TwainWhat Is Man? and Other EssaysProject Gutenberg ebook #70
Now this God would be drowning everybody in the world, now he would be burning Sodom and Gomorrah, now he would be inciting his congenial Israelites to the most terrific pogroms.
H. G. (Herbert George) WellsGod, the Invisible KingProject Gutenberg ebook #1046
And this Lot was he that was saved, when Sodom and Gomorrah and the other cities were burnt and sunken down to hell, where that the Dead Sea is now, as I have told you before.
John, Sir MandevilleThe Travels of Sir John MandevilleProject Gutenberg ebook #782