in all one's glory

Phrase

in all one's glory

1. (literal) In full splendour and power (e.g. of a deity or monarch).
   • But, little by little, the blackness wanes into gray, the gray warms into crimson; long streaks of light shoot across the brightening sky, while the morning mists roll off like the smoke of a battle; till at last up rises the sun in all his glory, revealing the bare undulating moor with its thin...1872, William Chambers, Robert Chambers, Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, page 163
   • "We are told,” says Professor Balfour, “that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these lilies.1874, Picturesque Illustrations of the Bible, page 61
2. (euphemistic, idiomatic, informal) Completely naked.
   • She quickly dressed for fear that someone would walk through the shower door and see her in all her glory.
   • The Olympic athlete wore no clothes, and those of us who have gone to the Eisenhower Theater remember that out in front on the mezzanine floor is the statue of the Greek god that was rescued from the depths of the ocean, and he's out there in all his glory in the nude.1990, Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1991, page 387