unholy trinity

noun — 2 senses

unholy trinity

noun

1

A set of three antagonistic and closely associated people or things.

In her essay "Zora Neale Hurston: A Cautionary Tale and a Partisan View," Alice Walker deems Hurston, Billie Holiday, and Bessie Smith "an unholy trinity."2005, Cheryl A. Wall, Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition:

2

Economics, Sciences Synonym of impossible trinity.

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