词汇 | walk like agag |
词源 | walk like Agag. The phrase, meaning to walk softly, remem- bers the biblical King Agag (I Samuel 15:32), of whom the Bible says, “And Agag came to him [Samuel] delicately,” which did him no good, for Samuel hewed him to pieces anyway. Agag, an Amelekite king, had previously been captured and spared by Saul. |
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