holy grail 延伸意义是终极目标或 top prize 的意思, in

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for example, winning the Nobel Prize is a the equivalent of a holy grail for an economist. One of the "Indiana Jones" movie is about finding the holy grail, the gold cup that Jesus supposedly drank from.