Don't hide your light under a bushel

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Don't hide your light under a bushel definition


Do not conceal your talents or abilities. This proverb is taken from the Sermon on the Mount; Jesus is telling believers not to hide their faith.

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Don't hide your light under a bushel is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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