| 单词 | to stand head and shoulders above |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto stand head and shoulders above (ii) head and shoulders: (with above, higher, taller, etc.) used adverbially to indicate the (considerable) amount by which a person's height exceeds that of others; also figurative with reference to attributes such as intellectual or moral stature. Frequently in to stand head and shoulders above. Cf. taller by the head at sense 1b(a).Originally with allusion to the height of Saul as described in 1 Samuel 9:2. [Compare post-classical Latin ab umero et sursum from the shoulder upwards (Vulgate, 1 Samuel 9:2) and the similar Hebrew expression underlying this (both without a word for ‘head’), but also quot. 1535 at sense 1b(a) (Coverdale, translating the same passage) and Luther's similar German translation eyns heubts lenger ‘taller by one head’ (1524).] ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily height > tallness > [adverb] head and shoulders1642 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > to a great extent or by far great quantityc1330 far forthly1362 by farc1380 well awayc1390 by half?a1400 by mucha1450 far (and) away1546 by a great sort1579 to stand head and shoulders abovea1683 (by) a long way1741 by a jugful1831 by all odds1832 by a long, damn, etc., sight1834 out and away1834 (by) a long chalk1835 by chalks1835 by long chalks1835 by a street1886 a whole lot1886 c1450 (a1425) Metrical Paraphr. Old Test. (Selden) l. 5160 He [sc. Saul] was cumly to ken, of breyd and heyghnes als, A bowe all oþer men both be þe hede and þe hals. 1608 Bp. T. Morton Preamble Incounter 62 I haue preferred a Saul, one higher by the head and shoulders than any of the rest.] 1642 A. Grosse Sweet & Soule-perswading Inducements 235 Saul was head and shoulders above the residue of the people; the life of grace is head and shoulders, very high and farre above the life of nature. a1683 B. Whichcote Several Disc. (1703) III. viii. 120 By these [sc. intelligence and freedom] we stand Head and Shoulders higher than the whole Creation below us. 1744 Def. People 68 The Difficulty is not simply to expose Fallacies and detect Falshoods; but out of such a puzzling Variety, to fasten upon those which are Head and Shoulders above the Rest. 1833 London Lit. Gaz. 2 Feb. 66/1 These two young men..generally stood head and shoulders above the thousands there assembled. 1885 D. C. Murray Rainbow Gold II. iv. v. 124 Job walked leisurely among them, head and shoulders higher than his neighbours. 1906 A. Colvin Making of Mod. Egypt iii. 53 In intellect, in acquirements, in experience, and in the supple arts of convincing men, Nubar Pasha was head and shoulders higher than any of his contemporaries. 1961 J. B. Cullen & F. C. Watkins Old Times in Faulkner Country ii. 8 I was head and shoulders taller than the others in the seventh grade. 2006 Ireland's Own Feb. 41/1 The one player who stands head and shoulders above the rest is button-accordion virtuoso Joe Burke. < as lemmas |
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