Like Jonah, you may lose your gourd, but you cannot lose your God.
The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.
The infernal flag-waving after 9/11 nearly drove liberals out of their gourds. For the left, 'flag-waving' is an epithet.
when a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.