| 词汇 | grandaddy of them all |
| 释义 | (redirected from grandaddy of them all)the granddaddy of them allThe biggest, oldest, most impressive, or most respected person or thing of his, her, or its kind. I own a lot of vintage cars, but my 1926 Bentley is the granddaddy of them all. granddaddy of them allThe first, oldest, or most respected of its kind, as in That computer is the grandaddy of them all. [Colloquial; c. 1900] (grand)daddy (of them all) n. the biggest or oldest of all; the patriarch. This old fish is the granddaddy of them all. granddaddy of them allThe first, oldest, or greatest example of something. This colloquialism dates from about 1900 and is never applied to a person. For example, “That was the granddaddy of all hurricanes, according to the weather forecaster.” The Persian Gulf War of 1991 gave rise to a similar locution, the mother of all . . . , meaning the greatest or best of something and based on a translation from Arabic. It was first applied by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to a major battle (“the mother of all battles”). At this writing it has not yet supplanted granddaddy, but possibly one day it will. |
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