bar none
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Possibly a shortened form of "to bar none" or "barring none".
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (AU) (file)
Adverb[edit]
bar none (not comparable)
- (idiomatic) Without exception; excluding nothing else of the same kind.
- They were all invited bar none.
- 1913, Zane Grey, chapter 4, in Desert Gold:
- Mexican horses are the finest in the world, bar none.
- 1922, James Joyce, chapter 16, in Ulysses:
- . . . Ireland, or something of that sort, which he described in his lengthy dissertation as the richest country bar none on the face of God's earth.
Usage notes[edit]
- Follows a superlative-modified noun.
Translations[edit]
without exception
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