I guess because it's just the grandest thing you've ever seen.
Now I am not saying that working for a living is a grand thing.
Before I had first done so, writing a book seemed a fine, even grand thing.
It is a grand thing to watch others at work.
I'm a simple woman, not accustomed to such grand things.
He had loved her, and that was a grand thing!
It would be a grand thing to get a little more money.
You think it's a grand thing you're after doing with your letting on to be dead, but what is it at all?
It was swell to be up early and ready to begin all such grand things that were to happen.
But post-9/11, he wants to do a lot of grand things.