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Pride of place   /praɪd əv pleɪs/   Listen
Pride of place

noun
1.
The first or highest or most important or most ostentatious place.





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"Pride of place" Quotes from Famous Books



... read them my journal, imploring me with tears in their eyes to waste not an instant, but give to a longing world this literary treasure. I have no illusions as regards my literary powers, and I do not imagine that I shall depose the gifted author of Eoethen from his pride of place. ...
— A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil • T. R. Swinburne
... Hades and the Initiates of the Eleusinian Mysteries, who form the Second Chorus, between Aeschylus, the present occupant of the throne of tragic excellence in hell, and the pushing, self-satisfied, upstart Euripides, who is for ousting him from his pride of place. ...
— The Eleven Comedies - Vol. I • Aristophanes et al


Words linked to "Pride of place" :   place, position


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