[Ads-l] to "last an antiquity"

[George Thompson]

>From The Guardian.

“I think this original indictment was engineered to last a thousand years
and now this superseding indictment will last an antiquity,” Ty Cobb told
CNN. “This is such a tight case, the evidence is so overwhelming.”

Ty Cobb is a lawyer who has represented ex-president Trump in the past.
He's referring to one of the current investigations.

This figure of speech puzzles me.  Antiquity lasted a hell of a long time,
to be sure, but he's projecting it into the future.

The article's headline is
Ex-Trump lawyer says evidence against him ‘overwhelming’ in Mar-a-Lago case.
GAT

-- 
George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998.

But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
your lowly tomb. . .
L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112

The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool.  (Here's a
picture of his great-grandfather.)

https://heritagecollections.parliament.uk/collections/getrecord/HOP_WOA_3851

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