- a large cup for holding wine, especially one from which wine is drunk in the Christian communion serviceTopics Religion and festivalsc2Word OriginMiddle English: via Old French from Latin calix, calic- ‘cup’.
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Idioms
See chalice in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarya poisoned chalice
- (especially British English) a thing that seems attractive when it is given to somebody but which soon becomes unpleasant
- He inherited a poisoned chalice when he took over the job as union leader.
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