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By all odds   /baɪ ɔl ɑdz/   Listen
By all odds

adverb
1.
Without question and beyond doubt.  Synonyms: decidedly, definitely, emphatically, in spades, unquestionably.  "She told him off in spades" , "By all odds they should win"






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"By all odds" Quotes from Famous Books



... gentleman, you must do one of two things; either study the subject of a gentleman's wardrobe until you are competent to pick out good suits from freaks and direct your misguided tailor, or, at least until your perceptions are trained, go to an English one. This latter method is the easiest, and, by all odds, the safest. It is not Anglomania but plain common sense to admit that, just as the Rue de la Paix in Paris is the fountainhead of fashions for women, Bond Street in London is the home ...
— Etiquette • Emily Post

... By all odds the most successful among the writers of that class of fiction which, for want of a better term, maybe called "mystery ...
— The Moving Finger • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... tell you till you see it," Mrs. Drake said, smiling mysteriously; "it is by all odds the prettiest thing you ever laid eyes on, an' she says she is willin' to let it go for the bare cost of the material. She is in a sort ...
— The Desired Woman • Will N. Harben



Words linked to "By all odds" :   unquestionably, definitely, emphatically, in spades, decidedly



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