2012年4月21日 · There are plenty of uses of the terms more than and better than where the two would not be interchangeable. Consider: On the violin, Roger performs better than Felix. When …

2012年5月14日 · 1) (a) implies that there is an established best that this person is even better than, (b) is a claim that the person is better than all others. 2) In many cases, they can be, but …

2016年1月29日 · It is better to underestimate your abilities and overestimate your risks than [to go in a direction that actually involves more uncertainty than you can justify]. The meaning can be …

2014年5月12日 · But obviously some people were too inattentive to realize the phrase is a joke twisting the original phrase. Personally I've never heard it stated as "better than the next" …

2022年3月17日 · "Minnie is no better than a beggar." This comment--again, an idiomatic expression--reveals the contempt this person has for Minnie much better than "Minnie is not …

Vinegar (sour) represents anything unpleasant that you do to get what you want. It tells you to use nice methods rather than unkind methods in dealing with other people. This is a saying that …

Colin is absolutely correct that "premium" doesn't really have a precise meaning. It is used in marketing to imply a somewhat better than baseline quality. There are loads of other such …

"Better late than never" is not half so good a maxim as "Better never late". In short, you'd only use it when you want to emphasise how bad "late" is - either because you're bitterly attacking …

If I throw something farther or faster than you, we can say "I throw better than you." BUT .. If I throw an object to a greater degree, amount, or constancy than I do the other object, we can …

2016年7月15日 · deal with or describe in an idealized or unrealistic fashion; make (something) seem better or more appealing than it really is. with the sample sentence: "the tendency to …