bar none
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Meaning · English
without exception or comparison
Literally: a bar with no exceptions
Where it’s used:
Used
Widespread English
Examples
Rosie Perez is the sexiest actress in the world bar none.
‘ Bristol have the best young backs in the country bar none’— Painter, Redrup, Hull and, on the day, we could not get near Morgan’—PETER POLLEDRI (Clifton captain) after the Pilkington Cup defeat at Bristol.
British National Corpus sentence via the MAGPIE corpus (CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30)
Sources & notes
Listed in Wiktionary’s “English idioms” category (retrieved 2026-07-29); definition pending editorial review. Definition drafted by AI (@cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast) and auto-approved by rule on 2026-07-30; pending editor spot-check.
Common questions
What does “bar none” mean?
without exception or comparison Literally: a bar with no exceptions
Is “bar none” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.