9 Idioms You Didn’t Know Came From the Bible

Eat, Drink and Be Merry

And I commend joy, for man has nothing better under the sun but to eat and drink and be joyful, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of his life that God has given him under the sun. — Ecclesiastes 8:15

BONUS IDIOM: Give Up the Ghost

Some explanation is actually necessary for this one: Acts 12:23 reads “Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down, because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last.” In Greek, the word for breath and spirit is the same – pneuma – and an Miles Coverdale’s translation from 1535 read: “Immediatly the angell of the LORDE smote him, because he gaue not God the honoure: And he was eaten vp of wormes, and gaue vp the goost.”

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