He asked for water. She gave him milk. She brought him butter in a lordly dish.

I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab; and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.

The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

The sluggard buries his hand in the dish. He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.