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

The Leningrad crowd that surged forward to greet him at the opening concert shouting "Davai Benny"was by all odds the jazz-happiest crew the band had yet encountered.

From Time Magazine Archive

The National Aquarium, the most advanced and by all odds the most attractive of its kind in the world, caps a $1.5 billion revitalization program on which Baltimore embarked 25 years ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1914, when Pius died, Merry del Val seemed by all odds the likeliest candidate for St. Peter's throne.

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