BY ANY STRETCH Definition & Meaning

by any stretch

Beyond ordinary limits, especially of the imagination. For example, She could not, by any stretch of the imagination, be considered a great actress. The phrase sometimes is put in the negative, by no stretch, as in By no stretch can that work be called an opera. [Late 1700s]

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Neither of these is easy by any stretch—and ousting Collins, even though she’s in a much bluer state, is the harder of these two tasks.

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“Sure, there are issues here. It’s a circumstantial case. It’s not a weak one by any stretch.”

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The plant "is not the largest employer by any stretch," said Bob Durkin, president of the non-partisan Scranton Chamber of Commerce.

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Sasaki, on the other hand, still is in the infancy of his career, arriving in MLB as “not a finished product by any stretch,” as his agent, Joel Wolfe, said at his introductory press conference, after making just 64 starts over four seasons in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball league.

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I actually don't think the Lions fly-half is decided by any stretch.

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