what does playing the martyr mean?
367201
A martyr is someone woho makes an ultimate sacrafice for a cause....playing the martyr is basicly being dramaticly passive-agressive about not getting your way
1115366
There's a great interpretation of that phrase at songmeanings.net:\n\n"And it's not quite about the quiet kid who never says anything, it's about the kid that has been hassled into never speaking, and is forced make himself heard by shooting himself in class...\n\n'Jeremy spoke in class today'"
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It means that the TV was his babysitter because his mom would go out and leave him to watch TV all the time so when he falls on the TV source he's actually "killing the babysitter" to all of the kids that had to go through what he did.  It's a metaphor.
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A common name for the Promoter of the Faith, it is from Catholicism and the process of canonizing someone.  See the Catholic Encyclopedia website link below.\n\nUsed in a 'typical way':  Someone is said to 'play the Devil's Advocate' when arguing the negative side of something for the sake of argument or when trying to help make sense of things.\n\n\nThomas Talboy, PhD, Director\nUbiquity International, LLC\nExperience. Explore. Embrace the World.(TM)\nhttp://www.ubiquityinternational.com
1069182
Expiate means to make atonement for.\nAll his jail time did nothing to expiate his inner guilt.
102298
It refers to the Jonestown mass murder/suicide in 1978, where hundreds of people were forced into a tent and made to drink poisoned Flavor Aid (though many people believe it was KoolAid).\n\nMany people use the expression to refer to those who blindly follow a leader into a dangerous or lethal situation.
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He used it on me a few times, it's kinda sad in a silly way.\n\nhe means something like Big Toe Bug Squash or something. He wants to tell you that God should use his Big Toe and step on you till you died.\n\nthat's mainworry's sense of humor. i call it threatening people with murder. but that's just my weird view on things, because, as we all know, Mainworry is the only one who holds the Full Truth.
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justice served.\nand you're right about the martyr thing.\nhe wouldn't be a martyr in the eyes of God, but even giving him the belief that he would be is more than he deserves.\n\nBut... I musn't be so angry with him... shame on me...\nI must forgive.\n\nMoussaoui was granted life by God so that he can amend his ways and seek the true path to fufilling his destiny. Be it Christianity or Islam, or something else.\n\nGod Bless \nto err is human... to forgive divine.
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The phrase means to die.  It comes from the following:  The wooden frame that slaughtered animals were hung from is known as a bucket. The death spasms of the animals caused them to kick the bucket. \n\nI refer to the site below for all of my phrase origin needs.
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I would have to say "playing both sides against the middle" means that you are not truly for one side or the other.  In fact, you are being fairweather to whoever can give the best advantage in the situation.  Sometimes the advantage is that if both sides not each other out, you will be the only one left standing to reap the rewards without having to risk anything.
839502
Martyr or possibly Kamikaze.\n\n:)
586380
A phrase used by a gamer to describe their latest confrontation with a parent or other person who belives that roleplaying games are the Spawn of Satan.
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I'm not 100% certain, but every time I hear it I want to punch the person who said it in the face and/or run them over with my car (or a larger car).  \n\nIt's usual colloquial usage is when someone does something very rude, cruel, or generally nasty and wants to follow it up with an insincere apology thus cementing their total lack of tact.\n\nHypothetical situation:\nTwelve year old Jenny hits a volleyball lightly over the net at a family party.  Uncle Chad, who's had a few Budweisers already, leaps up and spikes the ball as hard as possible into her face.\n"My bad!"
541945
Unfortunately this quote is famous because several knights who were drunk and lingering outside the door overheard this and went to go "help" their king. They killed Thomas Becket and it is said the cut his head off.  The King grief stricken by his good friends death sent the knights to the holy land (Jerusalem), an effective death sentence, to make penance for their crimes against the church and god.\nG
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This comes the Greek play Medea.  Medea was mad at her husband Jason (remember Jason & the Argonauts?) who left her & her kids for another woman.  To get even with him, she killed her kids.  The overall meaning is that you do something to punish someone else, but in the process you hurt yourself even more.
1125750
He likes to kill in the name of his beliefs, also.
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I'm a Christian and all but, that's just plain...idiotic I would never play something like that. What's the point? \n\nAnd no, it makes absolutely no sense. These people are simply stupid and hypocritical. God, or any other religion for that matter shouldn't promote killing in the name of God--in the name of anything. \n\nSheesh, these are the type of people that make Christians look bad. They aren't true Christians. They are deluded morons who are so stuck in their saintly appearances to the point of figuring out ways of entertaining fellow Christians through crazy games. I don't know. Maybe it's just me. But, you're right. It's stupid. And sort of spoof like. I would imagine South Park doing something like that.\n\nLol. If you think that's bad check this guy out:\nhttp://www.truechristian.com/ \n\nHe's clearly lost his marbles.