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Glory Demon (The)

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War.

“Fresh troops had each year to be sent off to glut the maw of the ‘Glory Demon.ʹ”—C. Thomson: Autobiography, 32.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Glendower (Owen)
Glim
Globe of Glass (Reynard’s)
Gloria
Gloria in Excelsis
Gloriana. (Queen Elizabeth considered as a sovereign.)
Glorious John
Glorious First of June
Glorious Uncertainty of the Law (The)
Glory
Glory Demon (The)
Glory Hand
Glory be to the Father
Glossin (Lawyer)
Gloucester
Glove
Glove
Glove Money
Gloves
Glubdubdrib
Gluckist and Piccinists