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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]

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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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