herod : Idioms & Phrases

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herod the great

  • noun king of Judea who (according to the New Testament) tried to kill Jesus by ordering the death of all children under age two in Bethlehem (73-4 BC)
    Herod.
WordNet

out-herod

  • verb surpass someone in cruelty or evil
WordNet
Out-Her"od transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To surpass (Herod) in violence or wickedness; to exceed in any vicious or offensive particular. "It out-Herods Herod." Shak.
    Out-Heroding the preposterous fashions of the times. Sir W. Scott.
Webster 1913