jewel in the crown
nounEtymology
The phrase historically referred to India under the British Raj (1858–1947), the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent.
Definitions
The most valuable or important thing or person among others of its kind.
- They eventually found each other and forged a powerful doubles partnership. In 1956, they won the French Championships and Wimbledon, the jewel in the crown of a sport that had hardly welcomed them.
- The 226-year-old auction house ranks behind only Sotheby’s and Christie’s as one of the sector’s major international players, […]. It has stood alongside Chelsea as one of the jewels in the crown of Russian investments in “Londongrad”.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for jewel in the crown. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA