A gospel shop is old-school slang for a church — the kind of irreverent nickname that suggests the speaker views organized religion with a slightly skeptical or at least irreverent eye.
A gospel shop is old-school slang for a church — the kind of irreverent nickname that suggests the speaker views organized religion with a slightly skeptical or at least irreverent eye. It frames religion as a business or storefront selling salvation, which gives the phrase a wry, working-class edge. You'd more likely hear it from a cynical narrator in a Victorian novel than a modern podcast, but it still has enough color to land well in the right context.
He hadn't set foot in a gospel shop since his grandmother's funeral twenty years ago.
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(slang) A church.