by a long shot
prep_phraseDefinitions
By a wide margin
By a wide margin; indicates a very big difference or disparity.
- He couldn't keep up with me, not by a long shot.
- He speaks better than he writes, by a long shot.
- ‘Yes, I do recognize it now. It is the most wonderful thing I ever heard of; by a long shot the most wonderful—and unexpected.’
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for by a long shot. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA