blaze of glory
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]blaze of glory (plural blazes of glory)
- An impressive but brief display of strength before expiring, in the way that a fire burns more brightly shortly before burning out.
- 1718, Alexander Pope, trans., Homer, The Iliad, Book XVII, line 240.
- A blaze of glory ere thou fad'st away.
- 1991 February 4, Elizabeth Yukins, quoting Will Murphy, “Needle Exchange Heatedly Debated In Boston”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 28, page 3:
- Jon has taken an "all or nothing approach," and he wants to go down in a blaze of glory. […] The issue has become an ego thing: a conflict of Jon Parker versus the rest of the world.
- 1718, Alexander Pope, trans., Homer, The Iliad, Book XVII, line 240.
- A sight, usually associated with a deity, that is forbidden or that is too glorious to behold.
- 1686, John Dryden, The Hind and the Panther:
- Thy throne is darkness in the abyss of light,/A blaze of glory that forbids the sight.