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HOLY TERROR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does holy terror mean?
• HOLY TERROR (noun)
The noun HOLY TERROR has 1 sense:
1. a very troublesome child
Familiarity information: HOLY TERROR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A very troublesome child
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
brat; holy terror; little terror; terror
Hypernyms ("holy terror" is a kind of...):
imp; monkey; rapscallion; rascal; scalawag; scallywag; scamp (one who is playfully mischievous)
Context examples
I begin to think so, Mr. Holmes, but when I thought of all the precaution I had taken to shield this girl—for I loved her, Mr. Holmes, and it is the only time that ever I knew what love was—it fairly drove me mad to think that she was in the power of the greatest brute and bully in South Africa—a man whose name is a holy terror from Kimberley to Johannesburg.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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