subs. phr. (common).—1. The Grand Hotel at Brighton. [Which is largely tenanted by Jews: cf., HOLY LAND (sense 2), and NEW JERUSALEM.]
2. (colloquial).—A private room; a SANCTUM (q.v.).
1891. N. GOULD, The Double Event, p. 215. Fletcher did not venture into that HOLY OF HOLIES.
1893. Westminister Gazette, 31 Jan., p. 3, c. 2. The Cabinet Council is the HOLY OF HOLIES of the British Constitution, and as Mr. Bagehot long ago regretted, no description of it at once graphic and authentic has ever been given.
3. (venery).—See HOLE, sense 1, and for synonyms, MONOSYLLABLE.
