Grand Slam Tournaments
Grand Slam commonly names a comprehensive or great achievement, derived from the "grand slam" in contract bridge which is a successful contract to win all thirteen tricks on one deal of card game.
Grand Slam, grand slam, and so on, may also refer to:
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Famous quotes containing the words grand and/or slam:
“This we take it is the grand characteristic of our age. By our skill in Mechanism, it has come to pass, that in the management of external things we excel all other ages; while in whatever respects the pure moral nature, in true dignity of soul and character, we are perhaps inferior to most civilised ages.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
“It’s not a slam at you when people are rude—it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)