They are: highball poker playing eschatological losers, secretive high-binders and slanderous Chinese-whisperers, high-blowers of high-pitched self important hymns, high-day revellers at the hoped-for slaughter of billions, authors of highfalutin, high-flown, high-minded, high-sounding teachings about their own highty-tighty high class, Oh, and high-handed, high 'n' mighty pharisees…on the high-road to hell.
That's the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary covered, but there's no mention of 'higher criticism'.
Thanks for the post, Farkel.
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