job's comfort

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  ·noun Assistance; relief; support. II. Comfort ·noun A wadded bedquilt; a comfortable. III. Comfor...

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• job's

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• job's comforter

  One who brings news of some additional misfortune. ...

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• job's dock

  He is laid up in Job's dock; i.e. in a salivation. The apartments for the foul or venereal patients ...

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• poor as job's turkey

  A common simile. The professor is as poor as Job's turkey, if it wasn't for that powerful salary th...

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