| one and only | |
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| eminent beyond or above comparison; "matchless beauty"; "the team's nonpareil center fielder"; "she's one girl in a million"; "the one and only Muhammad Ali"; "a peerless scholar"; "infamy unmatched in the Western world"; "wrote with unmatchable clarity"; "unrivaled mastery of her art" [syn: matchless] |
one and only
One's only love; one's only sweetheart. For example, He swore she was his one and only, but the detective following him knew better. [c. 1900]