by all odds

Idioms  

1. 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]

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Example Sentences

When all else fails, remember that you are a magical star child human being who by all odds was never meant to be born.

From Slate • Sep. 19, 2020

Oregon was by all odds Stevenson's most impressive showing so far.

From Time Magazine Archive

The year's most controversial novel and also, by all odds, the best written.

From Time Magazine Archive

Petersen, a career civil servant and a registered Democrat, was by all odds one of the committee's most refreshing witnesses.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas