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errand of mercy idiom literary an act of providing or bringing help救难扶困之举;雪中送炭 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Helping and co-operating abet accommodative any port in a stormidiom assist assist with something attend bridge carry errand facilitate facilitation financial assistance give someone a leg upidiom leg recourse relief run errandsidiom share a platformidiom sponsor start (something) off
And when the guard hurried away on what he supposed was an errand of mercy, the two rascals slipped away. Dressed in clerical garb, the peasants who passed probably regarded him as a monk on some errand of mercy. He was coming at a pace that might have landed him as winner of the race if he had not been delayed by his errand of mercy. It is an errand of mercy that brings me here. She must go on riding over rough roads on her errands of mercy.
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