Sacred cow is an idiom, a figurative reference to cattle in religion and mythology. A sacred cow is a figure of speech for something considered immune...

Look up sacred cow in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sacred cow(s) may refer to: Sacred cow (idiom), something considered (perhaps unreasonably) immune...

Look up Holy cow in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. "Holy cow!" (and other similar terms), an exclamation of surprise used mostly in the United States...

made a mark with saffron on his forehead, which is called qashqa in the idiom of the Hindus and which they consider lucky. When this was reported to me...

styles from the earliest times in many cultures. Pig names are used in idioms and animal epithets, often derogatory, since pigs have long been linked...

cow, Apu", a play on Bart's catchphrase "Don't have a cow, man," as well as the fact that many Hindus do not eat cows as they are considered sacred....

ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus. The meanings of these words do...

American manifestations, and assailed Emerson's reputation as that of a sacred cow.[citation needed] His first book of poems, Diadems and Fagots, takes its...

1930s in Washington, D.C.'s jazz scene, developing an innovative musical idiom for his orchestra. Abandoning the conventions of swing, he experimented...

A Hindu temple, also known as Mandir, Devasthanam, Pura, or Koil, is a sacred place where Hindus worship and show their devotion to deities through worship...

should strike his shield, the seller could not answer. This led to the idiom of "zìxīang máodùn" (自相矛盾, "from each-other spear shield"), or "self-contradictory"...

who are unable to give up meat-eating, they may sacrifice one goat, not cow, one small animal before the goddess Kali, on amāvāsya (new moon) day, night...

sandalwood, the white of the autumn moon, the white of silver, the white of cow's milk, the white of pearls, the white of a ray of sunlight, and the white...

the more traditional tomtar. The traditional word tomte lives on in an idiom, referring to the human caretaker of a property (hustomten), as well as...

that both the Gothic and the Celtic, though blended with a very different idiom, had the same origin with the Sanskrit ... — Sir William Jones, 1786 The...

possibilities" states Michell. Dravidian architecture is an architectural idiom in Hindu temple architecture that emerged from South India, reaching its...

Dravidian styles, which is the first and most persistent architectural idiom to be adopted by the early chalukyas. Cave 1 is about 59 feet (18 m) above...

The design radially displays the word ‘PAZ’ (PEACE) in the 16 official idioms spoken in all 20 countries of the Euro Zone as of January 2023. The inscription...

Kentucky, ISBN 978-0813138589 Novetzke, Christian Lee (2009), Shared Idioms, Sacred Symbols, and the Articulation of Identities in South Asia, Routledge...

dyes, which quickly replaced the traditional yellows made from arsenic, cow urine, and other substances. c. 1776, Jean-Honoré Fragonard painted A Young...

dragon, which depicts the nine sons on the reverse. It's also a Chinese idiom, which means among brothers each one has his good points.[citation needed]...

Sala is the sala tree and bhanjika is the chaste maiden. In the Hoysala idiom, madanika figures are decorative objects put at an angle on the outer walls...

handed down from generation to generation". To distinguish proverbs from idioms, cliches, etc., Norrick created a table of distinctive features, an abstract...

adjective "сура" (syra) "as a permanent epithet" of "земя" (earth). The idiom is "drunken as mother Earth", speculated to be of Proto-Slavic origin and...

approach to social mobility as idioms they identify Rajputisation as one of the most dynamic modes of upward mobility. As an idiom of political power it 'signifies...

Dylan sings that 'The sun is going down upon the sacred cow', it's safe to assume that the sacred cow here is the biblical metaphor for all false gods...

the cows). On this day the cows are taken to the nearby rivers or ponds to be bathed with special care. Traditionally, cows are respected as sacred animals...

According to Juha Janhunen, "the word is attested in all of the Tungusic idioms" such as Negidal, Lamut, Udehe/Orochi, Nanai, Ilcha, Orok, Manchu and Ulcha...

that his master was gone he was lying neglected on the heaps of mule and cow dung that lay in front of the stable doors till the men should come and draw...

musical shows, including Betty Blokk Buster Follies, Wonder Woman and Sacred Cow, in which he was regularly musical backing by ex-members of the Superstar...