Idiom
bar none
Meaning
Without exception; excluding nothing else of the same kind.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“This is the best pizza in town, bar none.”
“She is the most talented musician in the orchestra, bar none, and everyone knows it.”
“The mountain range offers the most breathtaking views in the entire country, bar none, attracting thousands of hikers every single year.”
Examples
simple
“This is the best pizza in town, bar none.”
contextual
“She is the most talented musician in the orchestra, bar none, and everyone knows it.”
complex
“The mountain range offers the most breathtaking views in the entire country, bar none, attracting thousands of hikers every single year.”
Origin
The phrase is probably a shortened form of to bar none or barring none. It appears as an ellipsis of the verb bar, in the sense of excluding or omitting an exception from a statement.
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