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 Out-Herod Herod (To).Out in the Fifteen—i.e. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Out and Out.
 
Incomparably, by far, or beyond measure; as, “He was out and out the best man.” “It is an outand-outer” means nothing can exceed it. It is the word utter, the Anglo-Saxon útærre.   1
 


 Out-Herod Herod (To).Out in the Fifteen—i.e. 

 
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