- wail|ing wall
- wail|ing wall «WAY lihng»,a place where one seeks or finds solace in times of sorrow or unhappiness: »
She retired to her dressing table, which has served as a wailing wall for all the years of our marriage (John Cheever).
╂[< the Wailing Wall, a relic of the western wall of the Temple, in Jerusalem, at which Jews gather to pray and especially to lament the destruction of the Temple by the Romans in A.D. 70]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
