Meaning of out-Tarzan | Babel Free

Definitions

To perform better than the fictional character Tarzan, especially at feats of athleticism.

Examples

“One wishes to be anew Smollett; another, to out-Tarzan the chronicler of apes.”

“"Robin Hood" is melodrama - roistering, rowdy, swasbuckling melodrama, that brings back a whiff of the dear old pit where one sat in one's 'teens, and a taste of old peanuts as well as nostalgia, and almost forces a cheer when Errol out-Tarzan's Tarzan or plays quarter-staff with Little John.”

“Mature is the husky who out-Tarzaned Tarzan in "50.000.000 B-C."”

“They are Chicago bus drivers who take to the sea on a yacht, and end up by out-tarzaning Tarzan on an uncharted south sea island populated by hundreds of beautiful girls, a platoon of villains and more wild animals than are caged in the average zoo.”

“In one sense Sequoyah out-Tarzaned Tarzan; but in another sense, unlike Tarzan, he merely copied others.”

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