sleeping beauty

📖 Definitions

noun

Someone or something that lies dormant for a long time.

💬 Usage Examples

“Eighty fatalities and 1,000 wounded citizens later, a pall had descended on Prague, which would now be a sleeping beauty for more than two decades.” Amotz Asa-El; The Prague Spring at 50; Jerusalem Post (Israel); Aug 24, 2018.
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