chalice

Definition

  • noun: a special cup for holding wine
  • noun: a drinking cup
  • synonyms: goblet, cu

Examples

  • Working as store manager was a 'poisoned chalice' as it became more and more difficult to be the boss of her friends.

Movie quotes

  • (..) MACBETH: But in these cases we still have judgement here. That we but teach bloody instructions which return to plague the inventor. This even-handed justice commends the ingredience of our poisoned chalice to our own lips. He's here in double trust. First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, (..)
    2015 Macbeth