Set The Standard Edit Meaning

1.

A small (often personal) guff with such potency that it redefines one's outlook on life...a smell that breaks the boundary of anything you have ever created; calling into question one's perspective of everything.

This little trump is something even YOU cannot endure. To "set the standard" in a public place wouldn't just be social suicide...It would be a war crime.

"I've just set the standard" (said to already dead spouse)

It is rare for anyone alive to actually hear the phrase in it's correct context

See potent, horrific, guff, almighty, trump