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View synonyms for pride and joy
pride and joy
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The object of one's great pleasure, as in Our new grandson is our pride and joy , or Dana's car is his pride and joy . This term was probably invented by Sir Walter Scott in his poem Rokeby (1813), where he described children as “a mother's pride, a father's joy.”Advertisement
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