Betty Wright

All of my babies know that I preach all day... I ain't trying to hide no light under no bushel. Everybody needs a little light in their life, and when they need prayer, they know where to come because they know I love them all, and I ain't judging nobody.

American Musician

Michael Pollan

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

American Educator

Rumi

The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle.

Poet

David F. Houston

What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man for 15 days.

American Politician

Moby

It seems so antithetical to the teachings of Christ to proclaim your faith in public. I mean, of course you're not supposed to hide your light under a bushel.

Charles McCarry

Other writers tell me about these bushel baskets delivered at the front door. If I've gotten 50 letters over the last 18 years, I'd be surprised.

American Writer

Jeremy Scott

Being pure in my voice has always served me the best. Anytime I've tried to hide my light under a bushel, it's never done me any good.

American Designer

Dean Stanley

We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.

A bushel is a precise volume; not used for liquids, mostly for agricultural products.

Measurement Precision

Originally a bushel was a basket you could fill; now, it's a standard measure.

Historic Origin

In the U.S., bushels are commonly used in agriculture, less so in everyday life.

American Usage

A bushel can mean a lot of something, usually in a positive or neutral sense.

Figurative Use

Using 'bushel' this way often exaggerates to make a point, not to be exact.

Exaggeration Indicator

As a verb, 'bushel' is very casual and can seem old-fashioned or folksy.

Informal Phrasing

The verb form of 'bushel' is outdated; modern English users say 'fix' or 'repair'.

Archaic Use

 but you can't hold a bushel of energy in your hands. You can see what it does, but you can't see it directly. There are different types of energy, but the differences between them are manifested only in how they make stuff behave. We do know that the total amount of all the different types of energy in the universe is always the same.

Where does energy come...

 writing and it wasn't long before we started recording more than bushels of grain writing allowed us to save our thoughts and send them much further space and time tiny markings on a clay tablet became a means for us to vanquish mortality it shook the world

History of Civilization...

 They didn't view these people as broken and useless; they were seen as rare and valuable. A few years ago, I was in a food market in the town where I grew up in that red zone in northeastern Pennsylvania, and I was standing over a bushel of tomatoes.

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