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holy grail
(redirected from Grail legend)

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holy grail
Medtalk A literary way of expressing 'elusive goal'


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As he hobbles around the hospital, suffering and bestowing cures, it's not too hard to see that the character derives from a long line of mythic, injured figures--Prometheus, the wounded king from the Grail legend.
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In a passage about the Fisher King in the Grail legend, he writes that "all men, I suspect, are wounded in the thigh .
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