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by all odds
Idioms and Phrases
By far, as in She is by all odds the best player on the team . This idiom uses odds in the sense of “the amount by which one thing excels or exceeds.” [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
Although we are by all odds the most social of all social animals—more interdependent, more attached to each other, more inseparable in our behavior than bees—we do not often feel our conjoined intelligence.
He has produced by all odds the best version of the Iliad in the English language.
At the head of these varied enterprises was Offut, the most progressive man by all odds in the village.
Tall, dark and unusually fine looking, he was by all odds the most noticeable man of the four; perhaps, indeed, the only one who would have attracted attention in almost any company.
As Jimmy was by all odds the fattest boy in school, this assertion was greeted by a roar of laughter.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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