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GOOD SAMARITAN

a person who helps someone in trouble without thought of personal gain
GOOD SAMARITAN
1. Be a good Samaritan and volunteer some of your free time to help out at the hospital.
2. Sometimes you have to resist the urge to be a good Samaritan and think about your own safety. You can’t pick up a strange hitchhiker in your car.

The expression has its origins in a story from the New Testament in which a man from Samaria helped someone who had been robbed by thieves.


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