Roman holiday
Example Sentences
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In the past, Italy away was something of a Roman holiday for England in the Six Nations.
From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026
Kim Kardashian is making a number of sartorial statements during her Roman holiday.
From Fox News • Jul. 1, 2021
On my Roman holiday my guide was a dead man of incomparable erudition and wit: the late Australian art critic Robert Hughes.
From Washington Post • Aug. 28, 2019
Herrmann called composing his 1941 Symphony a "Roman holiday."
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 26, 2016
It was a Roman holiday for the French inhabitants of the town of ——, who lined the roads en masse quivering with suppressed emotion and happiness, thinking they were eyewitnessing a great German retreat.
From The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 by Various
