beau idéal
/ˌbəʊ iːdeɪˈal
/ /bo ideal/noun
A person or thing representing the highest possible standard of excellence in a particular respect: as a war hero and budget-cutter, he strikes many observers as the beau idéal of electability...
- Successful double envelopment, every commander's beau idéal, can have no other outcome.
- He was the Beau Ideal of the Regular Army.
Origin
French, literally 'ideal beauty'.
Rhymes
- get on someone's nerves
- get on someone's tits
- get on someone's wick
- get on to
- get on top of
- get (or be) even
- get (or be given) a guernsey
- get (or be given) the gate
- get (or be) in on the act
- get (or be or go) beyond a joke
- get (or be) shot of
- get (or be) spliced
- get (or catch) it in the neck
- get (or give someone) a fair shake
- get (or give someone) ideas
- get (or give someone) the hook
- get (or give someone) the push (or shove)
- get (or go) back to nature
- get (or go) nowhere
- get (or have) a load on
- get (or have) one's ducks in a row
- get (or have) one's end away
- get (or have) one's (own) way
- get (or have or give someone) the hump
- get (or have) someone by the short and curlies (or short hairs)