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Definition of Get the best
1. Verb. Overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome. "The fighter managed to get the best his opponent"; "Heart disease can get the best of us"
Generic synonyms: Beat, Beat Out, Crush, Shell, Trounce, Vanquish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Get The Best
Literary usage of Get the best
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1905)
"We get the best stock—because it pays. We use the best feed—because it pays.
We get the best machinery—because it pays; because there is money in it. ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1890)
"Money may do its best to get the best and yet fail to get anything that makes
for the best in life. "Whatever helps us to love larger loves, to live larger ..."
3. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1908)
"And I hope that I have made plain what I started out to prove, that to get the
best yielding seed corn the crib is not the best place to select it, ..."
4. The Literary World by Samuel R. Crocker, Edward Abbott, Nicholas Paine Gilman, Madeline Vaughan Abbott Bushnell, Bliss Carman, Herbert Copeland (1881)
"Y. get the best. "DO IT NOW." Now Edition of WEBSTER ho» 4600 NEW WORDS and
Meanings, Biographical Dictionary of over 9700 Names. ..."
5. The Bookman (1907)
"... sells the kind of work for which publishers are in competition, and who takes
advantage of that competition to get the best market price for the author. ..."
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