Meanings
- idiomaticnot comparableTo a considerable degree.
She was head and shoulders better than any of her rivals.
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He was head and shoulders above the others in the law firm.
Both the New York Central and Pennsylvania systems, which in speed tower head-and-shoulders over other American lines, have added substantially to their high speed mileage between 1939 and 1940, [...].
1941 March, Mercury, “American Express Train Services in 1940”, in Railway Magazine, page 99 - not comparableBy force; violently.
to drag somebody head and shoulders
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They bring in every figure and scheme of speech, head and shoulders.
1711, Henry Felton, Dissertation on Reading the Classics
- businessA characteristic formation on a technical analysis chart where two lower peaks appear around a central higher peak.
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