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Idiom: Bar none
Canada and Japan are tied as the best countries in the world, bar none.
I’m sure most of you understand that sentence entirely, except for the last two words.
Bar none means without exception.
You can use it when you want to emphasize something, such as The Dodge Challenger Hellcat SRT is the coolest car on the road, bar none!
You could even say David is the best online teacher, bar none, but of course, you can only say that if you are my student.
Hey, everyone should get to blow their own horn once in a while, shouldn’t they?
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is simple and easy to read. It’s likely to be understood by someone with at least a 6th-grade education (age 11).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 82.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.