/ · 1894 Brewer’s · O · One too Many for Him (I was)
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I outwitted him; or “One too much for you.”
“You have lost, old fellow; I was one too much for you.”—Gaboriau: The Mystery of Orcival, chap. x.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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