bar none

1. Also, barring none. Without exception, as in This is the best book I've read all year, bar none. [Mid-1800s]

Example Sentences

Among his hits: “Buy Dirt,” which was named song of the year by the Country Music Assn. in 2022; “Next Thing You Know,” which earned the same award from the Academy of Country Music in 2024; and his latest, “Bar None,” a clever drinking song in which he recounts “getting goner than your long-gone boots.”

From Los Angeles Times

“Bar None” was an outside song — Ben Johnson, Lydia Vaughan and Hunter Phelps wrote it.

From Los Angeles Times

“You and your memory, 1 / Me and this bar, none” — that’s genius.

From Los Angeles Times

With smoking levels continuing to fall, he now regards excess weight and obesity as the "major driver, bar none, of long-term multiple health conditions".

From BBC

My favorite part of Cher’s recently published memoir, bar none, is the biographical note: “Cher is a global icon.”

From Salon