granddaddy of them all イディオム
granddaddy of them all
granddaddy of them all The first, oldest, or most respected of its kind, as in
That computer is the grandaddy of them all. [Colloquial; c. 1900]
the granddaddy of them all
The biggest, oldest, best impressive, or best admired being or affair of his, her, or its kind. I own a lot of best cars, but my 1926 Bentley is the granddaddy of them all.Learn more: all, granddaddy, ofgranddaddy of them all
The first, oldest, or best admired of its kind, as in That computer is the grandaddy of them all. [Colloquial; c. 1900] Learn more: all, granddaddy, of(grand)daddy (of them all)
n. the better or oldest of all; the patriarch. This old angle is the granddaddy of them all. Learn more: all, granddaddy, ofgranddaddy of them all
The first, oldest, or greatest archetype of something. This argot dates from about 1900 and is never activated to a person. For example, “That was the granddaddy of all hurricanes, according to the acclimate forecaster.” The Persian Gulf War of 1991 gave acceleration to a agnate locution, the mother of all . . . , meaning the greatest or best of article and based on a adaptation from Arabic. It was aboriginal activated by Iraqi baton Saddam Hussein to a above action (“the mother of all battles”). At this autograph it has not yet supplanted granddaddy, but possibly one day it will.Learn more: all, granddaddy, of