head and shoulders above

Speech parts

1. head and shoulders above - Adverb

2. head and shoulders above - Phrase

Meaning

outstandingly superior to

Source: WordNet

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There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both. Cormac McCarthy

The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd. Lowell Thomas

But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody. Marcus Allen

One man stands head and shoulders above his contemporary scholars: head and shoulders, some hold, above the Middle Ages: John Scotus Erigena. Johannes Scotus Eriugena

in intelligence he was head and shoulders above the others in his class Source: Internet

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