| 词汇 | st elizabeth-s flowers |
| 词源 | St. Elizabeth’s flowers. According to tradition, St. Elizabeth of Hungary gave so much food to the poor that her own household didn’t eat well. Her husband suspected this and when he saw her leaving the house one day with her apron full of something, he demanded to know what she carried. “Only flowers, my lord,” Elizabeth said, and God saved her lie by changing the loaves of bread in her apron to roses. |
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