(Noun) - The Greek God of being wrong. Actually the Latin and Greek spelling of the name Herod a common name before Herod the Great, Herodes Magnamus, tried to kill baby Jesus. He kinda screwed up the future of that name.
"I prayed to the Greek god Herodes yesterday and nothing happened because he doesn't f***ing exist."
"My dad told me I wasn't going to amount to anything in life, so I prayed to Herodes to make him be wrong it didn't work."
"Remember when Herodes tried to kill Jesus?" "Yeah, that was a dick move."
A clause in a contract, frequently buried in the fine print, that obligates the signer to fulfill an unacceptable condition, i.e. giving up your first born child. Sometimes such clauses are included to test whether the contract has been read by the client. Named for King Herod in the New Testament. British origin.
A person who always thinks that thigs are too small or too simple and proceeds to make them more elaborate, even ostentatious.
He just couldn't be happy with the car he found on the showroom floor. He had to pull a Herod the Great and pimp it out to no end. The DVD player is cool, but the jacuzzi in the back seat is a little much.