WordNet
adv. outstandingly superior to; "in intelligence he was head and shoulders above the others in his class"
Usage examples of "head and shoulders above".
The annals of occult history bulge mightily with tales of many a colourful character, but the enigmatic figure of Hugo Rune stands head and shoulders above the rest.
A handful of towheaded Northerners, head and shoulders above the rest.
Close on Shef's heels strode one man who brought murmurs of wonder to the rustics in from the fields, a man nearer seven foot than six, and one who would never see twenty stone again, nor twenty-five, a man head and shoulders above all but the mightiest even of the picked bodyguards: Brand the Viking, Champion now of all of Norway and not only of his native Halogaland, rumored in whispers even in the depths of England to be the relative of trolls and a kinsman of marbendills of the deep.
That alone placed him head and shoulders above the human military geniuses.
Through the rear doors there stalked a massive figure, head and shoulders above the people pushing out, in mail and cloak, but unarmed.
Finally a cop came into view-just a head and shoulders above the dense brush-forcing his way through the bracken.
Standing at the helm, with just his head and shoulders above water, he was level with the flat surface of the bay, seeing the world in a whole new way.
Her fine, golden brown fur was covered with a hooded cloak, and she towered head and shoulders above her friends as she gracefully held court.
In her frightened state she dug her nails into his arm but he took no notice, oblivious to pain, and she shook him as hard as she could shake a man who stood head and shoulders above her.
After him, in the uniform of a colonel of the Barbados Militia, rolled a tall, corpulent man who towered head and shoulders above the Governor, with malevolence plainly written on his enormous yellowish countenance.
I stood head and shoulders above the competition as far as potential clients were concerned.
Of course she was now an officer of the RCN, an organization that stood head and shoulders above every other group in the universe.
How could he expect them to believe that the gardener's daughter stood head and shoulders above all the Bennington girls he'd had to date?
Bad enough that he was a Horse Stealer, towering head and shoulders above the tallest of the Bloody Sword tribes and instantly identifiable as an outsider.
About two meters tall, a giant for his times, head and shoulders above everyone else around him.