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Apple of My Eye

See if you can imagine an appropriate situation for these phrases, all taken from the English Bible published in 1611 and all still used in everyday speech.

31. My flesh and my bone.

2 Samuel 19:12

32. [It is hard for thee to] kick against the pricks.

Acts 9:5

33. At their wit’s end.

Psalm 107:27

34. [I am escaped] with the skin of my teeth.

Job 19:20

35. No man can serve two masters... Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Matthew 6:24

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