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Better than average sort of pea — bravo!
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above par
Word definitions for above par in dictionaries
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Par \Par\, n. [L. par, adj., equal. See Peer an equal.] Equal value; equality of nominal and actual value; the value expressed on the face or in the words of a certificate of value, as a bond or other commercial paper. Equality of condition or circumstances. ...
Usage examples of above par.
With all recycling factors above par, one pilfered fruit probably wouldn't trigger catastrophe.
I liked it because the hotel was above par, and because the country round it was good for walking.
Said he was tired of Weston's cut, whichmade me think he must be a trifle above par.
So in their final form these papers embody the consolidated opinion reached by a majority among a selection of men all of whose brains are well above par and some, probably, as fine as any in the country.
Personally, I consider Ambrose's love affairs a great bore but as the Canary Club is a very high-class gaff where the food department is really above par, I am pleased to go with him.
Butler wondered whether Handel would have sent the steadfast funds up above par and maintained them on an inverted pedal with all the other markets fluctuating iniquitously round them like the sheep that turn every one to his own way in the 'Messiah'.
Poetry (though for a schoolboy of that age I was above par in English versification, and had already produced two or three compositions which I may venture to say were somewhat above mediocrity, and which had gained me more credit than the sound good sense of my old master was at all pleased with), &ndash.
The light from the near-by street-lamp enabled him quite plainly to recognize his sister, but he knew better than to trust his eyes when he was (in his own estimation) a little above par.