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Dead Sea fruit
noun
- something that appears to be beautiful or full of promise but is in reality nothing but illusion and disappointment.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Dead Sea fruit1
First recorded in 1810–20
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Example Sentences
All that had proved preeminently unsuccessful, a most poisonous harvest of Dead Sea fruit.
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Unconscious blasphemers are they who would offer this Dead Sea fruit as the true manna of Life!
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I tried to smoke, but the thing tasted like Dead Sea fruit and I pitched it out of the open window.
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Her warm invitation to him to call on her—possibly to take her again to lunch—had borne only Dead Sea fruit.
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All were dead-sea fruit, dust and ashes; there never would be any Browns of Bessington in the years to come.
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