granddaddy of them all

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The first, oldest, or most respected of its kind, as in That computer is the grandaddy of them all. [Colloquial; c. 1900]

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Naturally the conversation fell on the all-absorbing topic of the day and the object of his mission.
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But Lessard's a overbearin' son-of-a-gun all round, and he's always breakin' out in a new place.
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Mr. Slocum was not educated in a university, and his life has been in by-paths, and out-of-the-way places.
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