VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Kith and Kin

Meaning:

Family (collectively)

Examples:

  • Usually we love people who are related to us: our kith and kin, our blood relations, and our family.
  • This tradition of welcoming others with respect for their dignity must continue, for, believe me, no woman and no man would ever leave their family, their village or their country unless there was an overwhelming need to provide for their kith and kin.
  • I have no kith and kin, so I bother you so often.
  • Love towards a friend is not same as the love towards one's own kith and kin.
  • How can one who regards his body as different, regard his kith and kin as his own?
  • This love towards fiancée, kith and kin–a feeling of belonging—is not love in the true sense.
  • If any of your kith and kin come for you, do you think we'll allow you to go from here?
  • To survivors who have lost their kith and kin in the tsunami, life is bleak without the union of family life.
  • They cannot accumulate capital, invest it for the benefit of their descendants: they cannot perpetuate themselves or their kith and kin.
  • Naomi knows how it feels to live in a foreign land––far from kith and kin––and she wants to spare Orpah and Ruth from experiencing that feeling.