http://www.englishforums.com/English/GeneralEnglishVocabularyIdiom-Questions/Forum29.htmHelp with defining words and idioms, and new words and idioms that you've learntenXMOD (Build: 3616.28671)http://www.englishforums.com/English/ManMadeFromDust/bkgjb/post.htm#134668Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:11:09 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:134668MrPedantic0http://www.englishforums.com/English/ManMadeFromDust/bkgjb/post.htm#134668http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments29-134668.xmlQuite right. Thanks, Davkett! MrPhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/ManMadeFromDust/bkgjb/post.htm#134615Tue, 26 May 2009 17:11:09 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:134615davkett1http://www.englishforums.com/English/ManMadeFromDust/bkgjb/post.htm#134615http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments29-134615.xmlMrPedantic wrote: Yes; I think Adam was made out of dust and spittle. I think the spittle was from another story about healing a blind man.http://www.englishforums.com/English/ManMadeFromDust/bkgjb/post.htm#134586Tue, 26 May 2009 17:11:09 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:134586MrPedantic2http://www.englishforums.com/English/ManMadeFromDust/bkgjb/post.htm#134586http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments29-134586.xmlYes; I think Adam was made out of dust and spittle. MrPhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/ManMadeFromDust/bkgjb/post.htm#134555Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:11:09 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:134555May L.3http://www.englishforums.com/English/ManMadeFromDust/bkgjb/post.htm#134555http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments29-134555.xmlHi! I think it's something from the Bible: that all people are created from dust and return to dust. Maybe "not made of dust" is supposed to mean that this man was somehow different from all the other people?http://www.englishforums.com/English/ManMadeFromDust/bkgjb/post.htm#134546Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:11:09 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:134546Antonia4http://www.englishforums.com/English/ManMadeFromDust/bkgjb/post.htm#134546http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments29-134546.xmlHi Vermont, This is just a guess (I couldn't find the expression in the dictionaries, not even on google) I think that it means that the man in question has a reputation or the roots -perhaps his origins (his family is well known and appreciated). That he is not a no-name.http://www.englishforums.com/English/ManMadeFromDust/bkgjb/post.htmMon, 26 Jan 2009 18:11:09 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:134539Vermont5http://www.englishforums.com/English/ManMadeFromDust/bkgjb/post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/comments29-134539.xml1 And my glee was roused because I had caught Mr. Kipling napping. Here I had found a man not made from dust; one who had no narrow boasts of birthplace or country, one who, if he bragged at all, would brag of his whole round globe against the Martians and the inhabitants of the Moon. What does 'a man not made from dust' mean? Thanx!