glory = 'awesome horror'

[Dan Goncharoff]

To me, it sounds like Ancient Greece via Klingon...

DanG


On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Jonathan Lighter
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> > Maybe there needs to be a special def. of "in all (one's) glory" : 'at
> > one's most impressive.'
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> I agree. "In all (one's) glory" has been used ironically,
> sarcastically, and hyperbolically for dekkids.
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