can count on no hands
v. phr.— «
I was raised Orthodox and I can count on no hands the number of my
friends and associates who know anything important about Torah.
» —“Re: healing the rift between reform and orthodox” Usenet: soc.culture.jewish Mar. 26, 1995. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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