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What is "reflected glory"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reflected glory
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He had seen the reflected glory of kings and princes, experienced the artistic genius of the Renaissance.
▪ His boss sat on the forty-first floor and was still basking in the reflected glory of his minion.
▪ I certainly don't want to bask in any reflected glory.
▪ Perhaps, after all, Valerie hadn't resented him, grateful for his reflected glory.
▪ The reflected glory is all Hebburn's.
▪ The Communists were in control of the unemployed demonstrations, they had the reflected glory of the Bolshevik revolution.
▪ Walking with you, I wondered if all that reflected glory might prove dangerous.

Usage examples of "reflected glory".

The captain had returned from the elven island overbrimming with stories of elven wonders and glowing like a moon in the reflected glory of Queen Amlaruil.

A comfortable home with her grand lord, some minor title no doubt, wealth and security for her old age, and for him, a lovely and charming wife, a celebrated minstrel, and he could bask in her reflected glory and enjoy the envy of other men.

He had helped establish the new chef in a set of rooms on the ground floor of a former banking-house, and now he basked in the reflected glory of the most elaborate, most luxurious eating-place in the Palm.

Angel, who had come into the village with Sharpe's horse, basked in the reflected glory.

I am humbly aware that the wife of a great man has to be contented with reflected glory—.

It was as though the stableman felt himself somehow elevated by his master's prominence, and Arcole wondered if all servants felt the same reflected glory.

Sabala stood proudly, too, basking in her reflected glory, paws on the forward railing of the chariot and ears flapping as arrogantly as the banner above her.