Trial of the century
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trial-of-the-century-183-13833162
title:
Trial of the century
text:
Trial of the century is an idiomatic phrase used to describe certain well-known court cases, especially of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. It is often used popularly as a rhetorical device to attach importance to a trial and as such is not an objective observation. As attorney F. Lee Bailey and The Washington Post observed in 1999:
Calling court cases "the trial of the century" is a traditional bit of American hyperbole, like calling a circus "The Greatest Show on Earth". Nearly every juicy t
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description:
Sensationalistic idiom for court cases
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_the_century
date created:
2005-05-19T01:19:08Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T00:13:02Z
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