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One too Many for Him (I was)

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I outwitted him; or “One too much for you.”

“You have lost, old fellow; I was one too much for you.”—Gaboriau: The Mystery of Orcival, chap. x.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Omnium (Latin, of all)
Omnium Gatherum
Omorca
Omphale
On dit (French)
On the Loose
On the Shelf
One-horse System (A)
One - horse Universities
One Step from the Sublime to the Ridiculous
One too Many for Him (I was)
One Touch of Nature Makes the whole World Kin
Onion Pennies
Only (The)
Onslow
Onus (Latin)
Onus Probandi
Onyx
Opal
Opal of Alphonso XII. (of Spain)
Open Air Mission