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Going to Jerusalem   /gˈoʊɪŋ tu dʒərˈusələm/   Listen
Going to Jerusalem

noun
1.
A child's game in which players march to music around a group of chairs that contains one chair less than the number of players; when the music abruptly stops the players scramble to sit and the player who does not find a chair is eliminated; then a chair is removed and the march resumes until only the winner is seated.  Synonym: musical chairs.






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"Going to Jerusalem" Quotes from Famous Books



... passed since the execution of Jesus of Nazareth, bringing the first day of a new week. Very early in the morning Mary and Martha had arisen. With Anna and Debora, Martha was going to Jerusalem, where, just outside the city gate, she was to meet Mary, the mother of James and other women who had followed their acclaimed King from his own Galilee, and were now going to his sepulchre. These ...
— The Coming of the King • Bernie Babcock

... play going to Jerusalem," proposed Lulu, and they did, Grandfather Goosey-Gander whistling through his bill, just like a fife, to make the music. Then they played blind-duck-bluff, and post-office and clap-in clap-out, and forfeits and, oh, ...
— Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble • Howard R. Garis

... to go to Jerusalem, 52 and sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him. 53 And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he were going to Jerusalem. 54 And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we bid fire to come down from heaven, and consume them? 55 But he turned, and rebuked them. 56 And they ...
— The Gospel of Luke, An Exposition • Charles R. Erdman



Words linked to "Going to Jerusalem" :   musical chairs, child's game



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