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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 childplay

  Familiarity information: HOLY TERROR used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HOLY TERROR (noun)


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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