The apes and the monolith
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An idiom used to describe the reverence given to someone or something that is [venerated]. The term originated from a scene in [2001: A Space Odyssey]. In this scene, apes, the early ancestors of mankind, find and [venerate] a mysterious monolith that has appeared near their home.
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