pearly gates
珍珠门,梨花门,梨园门,珠穆朗玛峰
Definitions
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- : the entrance to heaven.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
KSM enters the complex through a “Sally Port,” a series of gates designed to allow just one vehicle in at a time.
Even Defense Secretary Gates, at least for a time, was open to the notion.
Will these resurrected animals be house-trained and know to exit the pearly gates before doing their business?
Comic book heroes are even hotter—Spiderman and Batman probably earn more money nowadays than Warren Buffett and Bill Gates.
But what happens at Winchester University is a microcosm of the cruel world beyond its be-crested gates.
The nine barricaded the outer gates and placed in the best positions guns loaded with grape.
I hadn't the nerve to stand there and tell her she'd never see her father again this side of the pearly gates.
He was accustomed, at his return, or issuing from his gates, to be hailed and lackied by the acclamations of the populace.
In the wall were eight gates, and at each one a keeper was stationed at all hours of the day and night.
If only India were pulling her weight for us on the same scale, we should by now be before the gates of Vienna.