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Definition of By a long shot
1. Adverb. By a great deal. "His labors haven't ended there--not by a long shot"
Definition of By a long shot
1. Adverb. (idiomatic) By a wide margin; indicates a very big difference or disparity. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of By A Long Shot
Literary usage of By a long shot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... he therefore seeks to approach it generally when on its nest by artifice, and
kills it by a long shot ; sometimes he snares it by a running noose. ..."
2. Instructions to Young Sportsmen, in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting by Peter Hawker, William Trotter Porter (1846)
"Many are apt to suppose, that, if a bird, killed by a long shot, has been struck
with four or five pellets, their gun will always be certain of doing ..."
3. Frank Forester's Horse and Horsemanship of the United States and British by Henry William Herbert (1857)
"He was not, by a long shot, so good a horse as Mingo, of whom it is asserted that
he was never beaten, ..."
4. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1871)
"Sal, I guess, warn't the first fool of her sex, and won't be the last by a long
shot. " Now comes the worst part of the story. One mornin' they was both ..."
5. Tactics by William Balck (1914)
"Even by mounting well trained troopers on untrained animals, one does not, by a
long shot, obtain cavalry. In the Boer war, mounted infantry steps into the ..."
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