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- Perhaps first appearing in the book of Amos 5:19, “As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.”
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Somehow I avoided catching COVID-19 but then my whole family came down with it and they where quarantining from me for a week, so I really escaped the bear and fell to the lion.
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échappe à l'ours et tombe aux mains du lion
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