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bow to the porcelain altar
Sl. to vomit, especially as a result of drinking too much alcohol. (The porcelain altar is a euphemism for a toilet bowl.) He spent the whole night bowing to the porcelain altar. I have the feeling that I will be bowing to the porcelain altar before morning.
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be sacrificed on the altar of something   (formal)
to be destroyed by an activity, system or belief that is bad but more important or more powerful Service and quality have been sacrificed on the altar of profit.
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sacrifice something on the altar of something
to destroy something in order to obtain something else He sacrificed his family life on the altar of his ambition and greed.
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Las metaforas vegetales subrayan esta conexion de Pilar con la tierra, de modo que cuando, al final de la novela, la joven se casa con el herrero indio, su corona de azahares se ha convertido en una explosion floral con que Yautepec parece celebrar la boda: "La iglesia, los altares, y especialmente el altar mayor, en que iba a celebrarse el casamiento, estaban llenos de arcos y de ramilletes de flores.
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Police officer Guillermo Altares said: "There is nothing left resembling a plane.
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