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Going to Jerusalem   /gˈoʊɪŋ tu dʒərˈusələm/   Listen
Going to Jerusalem

noun
1.
A child's game in which players march to music around a group of chairs that contains one chair less than the number of players; when the music abruptly stops the players scramble to sit and the player who does not find a chair is eliminated; then a chair is removed and the march resumes until only the winner is seated.  Synonym: musical chairs.






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"Going to jerusalem" Quotes from Famous Books



... play going to Jerusalem," proposed Lulu, and they did, Grandfather Goosey-Gander whistling through his bill, just like a fife, to make the music. Then they played blind-duck-bluff, and post-office and clap-in clap-out, and forfeits and, oh, ...
— Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble • Howard R. Garis

... parting. All through my wanderings the dog remained in my memory as a Dickensian and domestic emblem of England; and if it is difficult to take a donkey seriously, it ought to be easiest, at least, for a man who is going to Jerusalem. ...
— The New Jerusalem • G. K. Chesterton

... Lord Eskdale, looking up to the ceiling, 'I am thinking how you may prevent Tancred from going to Jerusalem, without, at the same time, ...
— Tancred - Or, The New Crusade • Benjamin Disraeli

... will be equally useful to grownups. The author has seen staid, respectable people play "Lubin Loo" with as much zest and spirit as the youngest group of children. All of us have played "Going to Jerusalem." The spirit must be there; there is nothing so contagious ...
— My Book of Indoor Games • Clarence Squareman

... that Jesus told His disciples He must be killed. Matthew says that while they were traveling in Galilee, on a certain day when the disciples were much elated over the marvelous things which He was doing, He took them aside and said "Let these words sink into your ears: I am going to Jerusalem to be killed." Later on, when they were going through Perea, Jesus took them aside and said, "The Son of man must suffer many things, and at last be put to death." On nearing Jerusalem His disciples became ...
— The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 (of 10) • Various



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