Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—O

One too Many for Him

(I was). I outwitted him; or “One too much for you.”

“You have lost, old fellow; I was one too much for you.” —Gaboriau: The Mystery of Orcival, chap. x.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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