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Spread-eagle Oratory

“A compound of exaggeration, effrontery, bombast, and extravagance, mixed with metaphors, platitudes, threats, and irreverent appeals flung at the Almighty.”(North American Review, November, 1858.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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