| Idioms: pride and joy |
The object of one's great pleasure, as in Our new grandson is our pride and joy, or Dana's car is his pride and joy. This term was probably invented by Sir Walter Scott in his poem Rokeby
(1813), where he described children as "a mother's pride, a father's joy."
 | pride (Idiom) |
| Hochmuth (family name) |
| Pride and Joy (Rock Band, '60s) |
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