Sodom and Gomorrah

English

Etymology

From the names of the cities in the Middle East which, according to the Hebrew Bible and to Islamic tradition, were destroyed by God for the sins of their inhabitants. More at Sodom and Gomorrah.

Pronunciation

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Noun

Sodom and Gomorrah

1. (simile) A city or place full of sin and vice.
   • 2017 February 16, Chris Baynes, “Inside the world's sex capital: City dubbed ‘modern day Sodom and Gomorrah’ with highest number of prostitutes anywhere”, in Daily Mirror‎^[1]:

     Pattaya has a reported 27,000 prostitutes, roughly one for every five people living permanently in the east-coast city that has been likened to a modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah.

Translations

Translations

• German: Sodom und Gomorrha (de)

Verb

Sodom and Gomorrah (third-person singular simple present Sodom and Gomorrahs, present participle Sodom and Gomorrahing, simple past and past participle Sodom and Gomorrahed)

1. (rhyming slang) To borrow.

Further reading

• Sodom and Gomorrah on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “Sodom and Gomorrah v.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present