Bible-bashing

[Wilson Gray]

If you've never seen literal Bble-thumping, it occurs in a scene of
the old reggae movie, The Harder They Come. The minister, as he
preaches, literally and repeatedly thumps a closed Bible sitting on
his lectern.

-Wilson

On 11/18/06, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:
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> from the Economist, 11/11/06, p. 14: "and in Ohio the Bible-bashing
> Ken Blackwell, who aspired to be governor, went down in flames."
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> this would be 'Bible-wielding' or 'Bible-thumping', i.e. 'bashing
> with the Bible', as opposed to 'bashing the Bible'.  both senses are
> attested in considerable numbers on the web.  context is obviously key.
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> arnold
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