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fatted calf, kill the produce one's best food to celebrate, especially at a prodigal's return, with biblical allusion to the story of the prodigal son (see prodigal), in which the father, welcoming the return of his son with a feast, tells his servants, ‘bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it’ (Luke 15:23).
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Kill ★★½ 1973 , kill1 / kil/ • v. [tr.] 1. cause the death of (a person, animal, or other living thing): her father was killed in a car crash| [intr.] a robber armed… Killing , Killing
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a place of bloodshed, so called after the field purchased by Judas with the bribe he received for betraying Christ.
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