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By a long shot

adverb

By a great deal. "His labors haven't ended there--not by a long shot"

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"By a long shot" Quotes from Famous Books

... purty as he thinks he is by a long shot," Dixie remarked, rather lamely, for she was slightly chilled by Henley's failure to comment favorably on the picture, "but he has a good heart. He is a church member in fair standing, and has a Bible class of young ladies in Sunday-school, and was once proposed for ...

— Dixie Hart • Will N. Harben

... never know how folks were getting on. So every two weeks the Judge and I are going to hold an old-time social, only we call it a community meeting so as to try to give it the new spirit. It's just as well for us to remember that we ain't all dead yet by a long shot, 'though I do think there's a whole lot that ain't got any more get up and get to them than Noah's old gray mule that had to be shoved ...

— Kit of Greenacre Farm • Izola Forrester

... accepted Harry's invitation. But he mopped a warm and furrowed brow, outside, and drew a prodigious sigh as he opened the note-book in his hand and crossed out, "See L." "That young fellow ain't all conscience," said he, "not by a long shot." ...

— Stories of a Western Town • Octave Thanet

... "I'll not, by a long shot," murmured Bagot. "I want satisfaction from whoever got me into this and I'll find out ...

— Jack Ranger's Western Trip - From Boarding School to Ranch and Range • Clarence Young

... it, neither, Judge—not by a long shot it ain't! Purty soon Old Peep looks round him at the little crowd that's gathered. He didn't seem to pay no heed to the grown-up people standin' there; but he sees a couple of boys about ten years old in the ...

— From Place to Place • Irvin S. Cobb