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Have the best   /hæv ðə bɛst/   Listen
Have the best

verb
1.
Overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome.  Synonyms: get the best, overcome.






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"Have the best" Quotes from Famous Books



... course, he realizes that he must have the best practical advice obtainable in this matter and is seeking for it from every available source. In fact, it is known that the best minds of the various departments of the Government, both of the Army and the Navy, are now and have been at work on these important matters for some time; that is, ...
— Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him • Joseph P. Tumulty

... learning the necessary truths. We hold back these persons that they may prize more highly the mercy which God is showing them, and understand more thoroughly the Christian doctrine and acquire good habits. All the rest of the people have the best possible inclination to receive our holy faith and come on every Sunday and feast-day to hear the sermons and discourses; a large audience always assembles, and all of them, even the infidels, entertain a great affection for holy things. Of ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, - Volume XIII., 1604-1605 • Ed. by Blair and Robertson

... slipping some silver into the grub-man's hands (for so they called him). "I want you to give particular attention to my friend there; let him have the best dinner you can get. And you must be as polite to him ...
— Bartleby, The Scrivener - A Story of Wall-Street • Herman Melville

... was taken at a great disadvantage, and thinking it advisable not to risk the lives of the party by any rash act on his part, he said: “I see now that you have the best of me; but ...
— The Great Salt Lake Trail • Colonel Henry Inman

... vehement style. But as there are many scenes of plays, which are justly reckoned among the finest compositions of the language, some of these may be adopted among the upper class of boys, and those more particularly who have the best deportment: for action in scenes will be found much more difficult than in single speeches. And here it will be necessary to give some additional instructions respecting action, as a speaker who delivers himself singly to an auditory, and one who addresses ...
— The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant • John Hamilton Moore


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