best of both worlds
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3.4
- idiom
- Informal
:
lo mejor de ambos mundos
- As Puerto Rico is now a U.S. territory, it has the best of both worlds.
- get the best of both worlds
Or possibly best of both worlds, depending on your project.
- Or possibly best of both worlds, depending on your project.
- You literally get the best of both worlds.
- So this way you get the best of both worlds.
- The Ricky's Tulip Kabuki Sponge is the best of both worlds.
- I love this and together it's just the best of both worlds.
- That give us an opportunity to, to have the best of both worlds.
- This is a hybrid that is the best of both worlds.
- First of all, I think what we can have now is the best of both worlds.
- And both of those terms mean that they are kind of like the best of both worlds.
- So what we need to do in marketing is we need to take the best of both worlds.
- So then we get to the meat of this question, show that we can have the best of both worlds, right?
- But if you have power and you and you stand your ground in a respectable way, then you can have best of both worlds.
- So they have the best of both worlds because there's a level of progress of things that they have learned because of my evolution.
Examples
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At Gracewood, we have the best of both worlds.
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We should focus on the best of both worlds: engage in cooperation, not in conflict and competition.
Blog text (1) -
- We can have the best of both worlds.
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That was the best of both worlds.
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You want the best of both worlds.
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What a great way to have the best of both worlds!
Academic text (2005) -
Students can have the best of both worlds if adults work together to make it happen.
Academic text (2002) -
Or you get the best of both worlds, like what we have done at Omnidrive.
Blog text (1) -
What he wondered was, could he cross-breed these old, sweet favourites with the hardy modern tomato to get the best of both worlds?
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By living in the city during the week and the countryside on weekends, he truly enjoys the best of both worlds.
Synonyms
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7.2
To try to get the good parts of two opposite choices at the same time
Antonyms
- Informal
2
7.3
A case where you get the bad parts of two choices and no good parts
How Advantageous
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a situation in which you can enjoy the advantages of two very different things at the same time' is directly and compositionally derivable from 'best' (most favorable) + 'of both' (from two) + 'worlds' (situations/realms). This simple, literal combination is common across languages (e.g. Spanish 'lo mejor de ambos mundos') and follows transparent compositional logic, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents should be able to infer the meaning.
Etymology
Best of both worlds comes from a simple image: imagine standing with one foot in each world and taking the best from both worlds. That's why it means 'enjoying the advantages of two different things at the same time'.