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

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 Literature

He has produced by all odds the best version of the Iliad in the English language.

From Project Gutenberg

At the head of these varied enterprises was Offut, the most progressive man by all odds in the village.

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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.

From Project Gutenberg

The only real teaching in arts—by all odds the most popular branch of study at Oxford—was given within the colleges and halls.

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