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by any stretch
Idioms and Phrases
Beyond ordinary limits, especially of the imagination. For example, She could not, by any stretch of the imagination, be considered a great actress . The phrase sometimes is put in the negative, by no stretch , as in By no stretch can that work be called an opera . [Late 1700s]Example Sentences
The plant "is not the largest employer by any stretch," said Bob Durkin, president of the non-partisan Scranton Chamber of Commerce.
Sasaki, on the other hand, still is in the infancy of his career, arriving in MLB as “not a finished product by any stretch,” as his agent, Joel Wolfe, said at his introductory press conference, after making just 64 starts over four seasons in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball league.
I actually don't think the Lions fly-half is decided by any stretch.
“We are not out of the woods by any stretch of the imagination,” she said.
“It’s not a bad thing by any stretch of the imagination,” Phillips O’Brien, a professor of strategic studies at the University of St. Andrews, in Scotland, wrote on his Substack.
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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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