Idiom Meaning: Fig. the earth; mortal life
on earth. (Vale is a literary
word for valley.)
Idiom Example:
When it comes time for me to leave this vale of tears,
I hope I can leave some worthwhile memories behind.
Another Example from the News:
Rent Seeking
and Other Blood Sports
The history of federal health care management for active
military and veterans is a vale of tears that includes mismanagement,
sub-standard care, and outright abuse. And institutionally, no one thinks of a
Veterans Administration (VA) hospital as an American national standard for
medical staff or patient care. The VA and the military health care system do
not host the cream of the crop from any management or medical school either.
Dare we mention Major (doctor) Nidal Hasan, US Army,
better at taking life than caring for it? Do we need to review the bidding at
Walter Reed Army Medical Center where rehab included rats and roaches? Or
recall that the US Army couldn't even keep track of cadavers or ashes at
Arlington National Cemetery. Arlington is in the Pentagon's back yard. Who
believes that apathetic apparatchiks who can't manage the honored dead should
be trusted to manage nationalized care for the living? Read the full news
at: http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/11/rent_seeking_and_other_blood_sports.html
Vale of Tears.
ReplyDeleteIdiom Meaning: Fig. the earth; mortal life on earth. (Vale is a literary
word for valley.)