"Wither on the vine" nghĩa là gì?


"Wither on the vine" = khô héo trên cành nho -> nghĩa là dần dần hỏng, xuống cấp vì không được ai chăm sóc, hỗ trợ.

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But, just as chil­­dren who enter a reception class don’t have the option of deciding with their school that education isn’t for them, few would have taken seriously the idea that, at an indeterminate (vô định) point in the future, the C of E would come to a collective mind that the venture had failed, and that those women who had been ordained (ra lệnh) would be stripped of their Orders. Nevertheless, history suggests that there are developments that ultimately are not received and wither on the vine.

Let’s face it, and this I hold to be true: Without our farmers – and we have a whole lot of them – the market here would wither on the vine. I’ve seen it and I see it.

When Warwickshire changed over to WMAS there was always a fear that areas like Birmingham and Coventry would be prioritised (ưu tiên) and places like Rugby would be left to wither on the vine.

The work was so important, she added, “because if people give up and walk away and don’t stand on the front lines — whether it’s a bridge (cây cầu) in Selma or whether it’s working an election — our democracy will wither on the vine.”

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