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the likes of

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the likes of somebody/something
someone or something as good as someone or something else We haven't seen the likes of Muhammad Ali since he retired from the ring. They're not competing against the likes of you or me but real, first-class, serious athletes.
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As for Sir Pathrick O'Grandison, Barronitt, it wasn't for the likes of his riverence to be afther the minding of a thrifle of a mistake.
We can't afford to lose whales by the likes of you; a whale would sell for thirty times what you would, Pip, in Alabama.
The National Gallery was good enough for the likes of him.
 
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