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Pearly Gates

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Pear·ly Gates  (pûrl)
n. Informal
The gateway to heaven.

[From the description of heaven in Revelation 21.]

Pearly Gates
pl n
1. Informal the entrance to heaven
2. (not capitals) Brit slang teeth


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Instead of arriving at the pearly gates, Marion ends up back home with a new acquaintance who inadvertently helps her to re-connect with life.
You get to the pearly gates, they look at your file and they laugh at you, because you made a $54,000 mistake for having this policy and never needing it.
Byline: PETER ELSON AFTER speculating last week whether the late former PM Harold Macmillan would be held accountable at the Pearly Gates for shipping White Russian refugees back home to a certain death by Stalin, we now have the intriguing case of Robert McNamara.
 
 
 
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