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- v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of out-Herod.
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Examples
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Sometimes, alas! the calmest man is carried away in the torrent, bandies adjectives with the best, and out-Herods Herod for some shameful moments.
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Stephenson, at Liverpool, to learn what he was doing, and to order engines from him; but Mr. King out-herods Herod, for he claims on behalf of the Colonel, the working of Steam expansively in 1815, for which Watt had taken out a patent thirty-five years before.
Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada
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Bee, who always out-Herods Herod, became so bucolic that she nearly drove the hens off their nests in order to hatch the eggs personally.
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I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod pray you avoid it.
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I could have such a fellow whipped for overdoing termagant: it out-Herods Herod.
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Ladies always wear bonnets at a garden-party, and the sensible fashion of short dresses has hitherto prevailed; but it is rumored that a recent edict of the Princess of Wales against short dresses at her garden-parties will find followers on this side of the water, notably at Newport, which out-Herods Herod in its respect to English fashions.
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Hamlet's saying "he out-Herods Herod" sufficiently suggests the raging tyrant whom the playwrights of the Middle Ages loved.
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I would have such a fellow whipped for oerdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod.
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Let us begin, say, with opus 38, a "Polonaise" that out-Herods Chopin in bravura, but is full of vigor and well held together.
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I would have such a fellow whipped for o'er-doing Termagant; it out-herods Herod.
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