See widow's cruse on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "From the widow's cruse of oil that miraculously supplies Elijah during a famine (1 Kings 17:8–16).",
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"pos": "noun",
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"ref": "2005, Jan Toporowski, Theories of financial disturbance:",
"text": "Thus profits, as a source of capital increment for entrepreneurs, are a widow's cruse which remains undepleted however much of them may be devoted to riotous living.",
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"An inexhaustible supply, often of something that appears meager."
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"word": "widow's cruse"
}
{
"etymology_text": "From the widow's cruse of oil that miraculously supplies Elijah during a famine (1 Kings 17:8–16).",
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