• I was once being shown round a house we were thinking about buying by the lovely old couple who had lived in it for years. The old fella showed me his basement study/man-cave/hidey hole. He was a keen entomologist so it was covered in books and prints and specimens of insects. He introduced it as his "glory hole". Top Freudian slippage that.

  • He introduced it as his "glory hole". Top Freudian slippage

    There is another meaning, which was common in my youth. A glory hole was simply an untidy room, no sexual inyourendo at all.

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