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second best

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second best
something that is not as good as the thing that you really want. I know exactly what sort of apartment I'm looking for and I'm not going to settle for second best.
See also: best, second


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And when Anne, dressed in her second best, as primly opened it, both little girls shook hands as gravely as if they had never met before.
She was wearing a black cashmere dress that had been her aunt Jane's second best.
His calicoes were the finest, or, in other words, the most showy, of any that were brought into the country, and it was impossible to look at the prices asked for his goods by” so pretty a spoken man,” Through these conjoint means, the affairs of Monsieur Le Quoi were again in a prosperous condition, and he was looked up to by the settlers as the second best man on the
 
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