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none other than

none other than phrase: used to qualify a person whose eminence may be more than one would expect in the given situation.

Phrase

none other than

  1. (idiomatic) Used to qualify a person whose eminence may be more than one would expect in the given situation.
    • Produced by none other than Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, Good Boys again most closely resembles a kind of junior-varsity tryout for that duo's Superbad, down to its modestly affecting emotional through-line: an acceptance of the fact that childhood friendships, forged out of proximity and...2019 August 14, A. A. Dowd, “Good Boys Puts a Tween Spin on the R-rated Teen Comedy, to Mostly Funny Effect”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2021

Origin of none other than

From Middle English non other than.

Questions about none other than

What does none other than mean?
None other than means used to qualify a person whose eminence may be more than one would expect in the given situation.
What part of speech is none other than?
None other than is a phrase.

Words near none other than in the dictionary

  1. none of someone's business
  2. none of these words are in the Bible
  3. none of your bee's wax
  4. none of your bees' wax
  5. none of your beeswax
  6. none other than
  7. none taken
  8. none the less
  9. none the wiser
  10. none the worse
  11. none too soon

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