HOLY GRAIL


Meaning of HOLY GRAIL in English

noun

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A vaccine for malaria has become something of a scientific holy grail .

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Another generation of Labour leaders, in the 1960s, were still left to search for the Holy Grail of economic planning.

That was my Holy Grail , and there could be no real life for me until I found it.

The plot proper, however, is the Big One - a quest for the Holy Grail .

Total immunity from colds once seemed to be the unattainable Holy Grail of clinical viral science.

We may remember here that the Holy Grail is sometimes considered to be a stone, as well as a vessel.

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