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Sodom and Gomorrah
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What does Sodom and Gomorrah mean?
noun
- (figuratively) A city or place full of sin and vice.
verb
- (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.
Returning to Portsmouth they embarked on May 22nd, and soon found they were “to dwell in Sodom and Gomorrah” during their voyage.
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The two most famous volcanoes of Europe are Sodom and Gomorrah.
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.
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.