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Lexicographical Neighbors of

the doldrums
the early bird catches the worm
the early bird gets the worm
the end all-be all
the end justifies the means
the end of one's rope
the ends justify the means
the enemy of your enemy is your friend
the finger
the fix is in
the gapes
the goat god (current term)
the good old days
the green-eyed monster
the heck
the hell
the hell out of
the hell with it
the icing on the cake
the jig is up
the joke is on someone
the jury is still out
the lady doth protest too much
the least bit

Literary usage of

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer (1900)
"Hence the goat-god Dionysus is represented as eating raw goat's blood ;'2 and the bull-god Dionysus is called "eater of bulls."3 On the analogy of these ..."

2. Primitive Traditional History: The Primitive History and Chronology of India by James Francis Katherinus Hewitt (1907)
"He became the Pole Star goat, the goat-god Pan of the Satyrs of Asia Minor, ... He was the goat-god Aker of the Basques, whose sacred mountain in the ..."

3. The Ruling Races of Prehistoric Times in India, Southwestern Asia, and by James Francis Katherinus Hewitt (1894)
"... which had thought the music of the goat-god to be superior to the lyre of Apollo, were those of an ass,1 and this myth tells how the Semite Dorian race, ..."

4. History and Chronology of the Myth-making Age by James Francis Katherinus Hewitt (1901)
"... Sophia, daughter of the king of Parma, who was being slain as the dying year-god by the witchcraft of the witches of the goat-god, and in this guise he ..."

5. Christianity and Mythology by John Mackinnon Robertson (1900)
"... probably a result of a misconception of some earlier symbolic scene in which the Goat-God carries the Sun-God to the top of the cosmic " mountain. ..."

6. The Lupercalia by Alberta Mildred Franklin (1921)
"... deities was the goat-god. As the goat can thrive on the most barren hillside, his cult was widespread and important in Greece in very early times. ..."

7. The Lupercalia by Alberta Mildred Franklin, Franklin, Alberta Mildred (1921)
"The god of the pastoral stage who made his way most frequently into the cults of other deities was the goat-god. As the goat can thrive on the most barren ..."

8. The Mythical Interpretation of the Gospels: Critical Studies in the Historic by Thomas James Thorburn (1916)
"With Capricorn, too, Pan "the goat-god" was primarily associated through his goat legs, and is further directly associated in the myth, where he assists ..."

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