Idiom
head and shoulders
Meaning
To a considerable degree.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“This new phone is head and shoulders above the old one.”
“The team won the championship because their star player was head and shoulders better than the competition.”
“His latest novel stands head and shoulders above his previous works, demonstrating a level of maturity and insight that critics had not previously expected.”
Examples
simple
“This new phone is head and shoulders above the old one.”
contextual
“The team won the championship because their star player was head and shoulders better than the competition.”
complex
“His latest novel stands head and shoulders above his previous works, demonstrating a level of maturity and insight that critics had not previously expected.”
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