Meaning of man among men | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A man who is accepted on the same terms, and as having the same worth, as other men in society.
   idiomatic
2. A superior or remarkable man who stands out from other men; a leader or exemplar for other men.
   idiomatic

Examples

“I have accomplished my dearest wish, I am a man among men, on an equal footing with Tom, Dick and Harry, and yet it isn't just exactly what I thought it was going to be.”

“The boy was on terms of perfect equality with Obed and the Panther. They treated him as a man among men.”

“Willson transformed Roy Fitzgerald into Rock Hudson and secured him an apprenticeship. . . . [H]e was able to establish his film personality: steady, likable, a man among men.”

“And be thy ſelf Man among men on Earth, / Made fleſh, when time ſhall be, of Virgin ſeed, / By wondrous birth: […]”

“To her distorted fancy he was a man among men, a hero, all that was admirable and magnificent.”

“At the head of it rode two men—one with a quiet mesmeric power that bred perfect trust at sight, the other with a kindling power of enthusiasm, and a passionate energy, mental, physical, emotional, that was tireless; each a man among men, and both together an ideal leader for the thousand Americans at their heels.”

“[H]e was so much a man among men, a giant, with a great, lumbering mind, slow to conceive, but moving in a large, impressive way when once conception came.”

“A prince is a man among men, a canny fighter, a steely sovereign who takes what he wants out of life.”

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