purple patch
Period of brilliance
A purple patch is a period of notably good performance or luck: The team hit a purple patch, winning six straight games.
In writing, it refers to an overly ornate or florid passage that stands out from plainer surrounding prose—originally a criticism, from the Latin image of sewing purple cloth onto a plain garment.
Unbroken series
- winning streakConsecutive successes over time
- hot streakSustained period of success
- formShape or document
- peak performanceHighest level of functioning
dominance · heyday · golden age · renaissance · breakthrough · triumph · momentum · ascendancy
Heavily embellished writing style
- overwroughtExcessively emotional or elaborate
- embellishedDecorated or exaggerated
- rhetorical flourishDecorative language technique
- verboseMore words than necessary
grandiloquent · bombastic · ornamental · baroque · rococo · overwritten · melodramatic · excessive
streak
Unbroken series
- winning streakConsecutive successes over time
- hot streakSustained period of success
- formShape or document
peak performance · dominance · heyday · golden age · renaissance · breakthrough · triumph · momentum · ascendancy · rich vein
ornate prose
Heavily embellished writing style
- overwroughtExcessively emotional or elaborate
- embellishedDecorated or exaggerated
- rhetorical flourishDecorative language technique
verbose · grandiloquent · bombastic · ornamental · baroque · rococo · overwritten · melodramatic · excessive · overblown
- writing flawstypos, spelling errors, plot hole, plot holes, cliche
- golden daysglory days, golden age, golden era, golden period, golden years
purple patchslump
Extended period of decline
rough patch · dry spell · losing streak · downturn · fallow period
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