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be converted to religious belief and practices (He got religion and gave his money to the poor. • When he got religion, it was framed as a rejection of the rest of his career, and he had to backpedal or move on (depending on how you look at it), before he had a chance to speak to his wider audience again. • Billboards used to ask us to get religion and go to ‘the church of [our] choice.’ • Many people in rehab, and in defeat, get religion. • I'm hardly an authority on saints, or irony, but am I right in thinking that, before he got religion, St. Andrew was a Middle Eastern fisherman? • Three lives collide after a car crash: transplant patient/mathematician Sean Penn, grieving mother Naomi Watts and Benicio del Toro as an ex-con who got religion. • They got religion, and they're going crazy and that's great. • He's a fellah I was at school with who was a gardener, but he got religion so keep away from him. • He knew she'd got religion because she'd said as much, but whatever it was, he hadn't wanted any part of it for himself. • To her, though, it will always be the place where she got religion. • Others got religion or turned to booze as a way of salving their incurable ache for space.  lexico.com) |
