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Examples:Yu the Great (c. 21st century BC) mythical leader who tamed the floods—legendary dragon with the ability control rain and floods—a legendary dragon with the ability control rain and floods—a flood (often fig., e.g. a flood of ideas)—secondary disaster (e.g. epidemic following floods)—Yu the Great (c. 21st century BC), mythical leader who tamed the floods—in floods of tears [idiom.]—lit. severe floods and fierce beasts [idiom.]—flow backwards (of water, because of flood, tide, wind etc)—only met with once every hundred years (drought, flood etc)—flood of good fortune fills the heavens (idiom); a lucky sign—the theory that geological change is caused by catastrophic events such as the Biblical flood—flood causes disaster (idiom); fig. swamped with work—ice-jam flood (arising when river downstream freezes more than upstream)—provide a stable crop, regardless of drought or flood—natural and man-made disasters (idiom); natural calamities (flood, drought, earthquake) added human calamity (fire, famine, war, Microsoft software)—catastrophism (theory that geological changes are brought about by catastrophes such as the biblical flood)— |