Phrases

First off, your site is informative and incredible interesting and has helped me a great deal in understanding colloquialisms used on a daily basis by individuals with no gasp as to their meaning.

However, I was looking for the origin/meaning of two phrases which I did not see on your site:

- wax ecstatic
- Jesus wept

Please considered adding them, as I would be most interesting in reading about their origins.

"Jesus wept." is from the Bible, John 11. He cried because his friend died.

First off, your site is informative and incredible interesting and has helped me a great deal in understanding colloquialisms used on a daily basis by individuals with no gasp as to their meaning.

However, I was looking for the origin/meaning of two phrases which I did not see on your site:

- wax ecstatic
- Jesus wept

Please considered adding them, as I would be most interesting in reading about their origins.

"Jesus wept." is from the Bible, John 11. He cried because his friend died.

That's the shortest verse in the Bible, by the way.

To wax ecstatic (or for that matter, to wax lyrical or wax poetic or....) is not a phrase with a traceable origin, as it is ordinary speech. Thousands of people have said such things, without "quoting" anyone. To wax means to increase, or grow. The moon waxes and wanes.