horror of horrors

Definitions

1. 1

   Something that is among the most horrifying things imaginable.

   • Volumes would barely suffice to recount the varied horrors of horrors of this disastrous insurrection, where the worst passions of human nature were brought to the aid of the infernal work of destruction.
   • "He posed as the horror of horrors — a misunderstood man. Heaven knows the femme incomprise is sad enough and bad enough — but the other thing!"
   • To foreign eyes it is a sight, once seen, never to be forgotten — a horror of horrors.
2. 2

   Used to indicate that something is very horrifying.

   • Horror of horrors! within a stair or two beneath the spot where I stood the unearthly tread smote the floor.
   • I wrestled with the wheel, snaked her out of the skid after spinning round and then - horror of horrors - a rear wheel struck a soft verge, the car overturned and there was I, semi-conscious but, as far as I can recall, in no acute pain.
   • And now, horror of horrors, a suggestion is made to do away with the individuality of our Cacti and turn them into cultivated " Zombies " .

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