OUT-HEROD


Meaning of OUT-HEROD in English

[out-Her.od] vt [out- + Herod the Great, depicted in medieval mystery plays as a blustering tyrant] (1602): to exceed in violence or extravagance--usu. used in the phrase out-Herod Herod

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