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pride and joy

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pride and joy
a person or thing that gives great pleasure and satisfaction. Her garden is her pride and joy.
See also: joy, pride

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Many a time tears of pride and joy have stood in my eyes while I read the tender, loving, appealing letters that came to me in almost every mail from my little readers.
A fine head of hair is the pride and joy of every woman's heart.
And now, at last,' cried Dolly, trembling with the fervour of her speech, 'if you were sick, and shattered in your every limb; if you were ailing, weak, and sorrowful; if, instead of being what you are, you were in everybody's eyes but mine the wreck and ruin of a man; I would be your wife, dear love, with greater pride and joy, than if you were the stateliest lord in England
 
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