Larger-than-life

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Etymology

First attested 1937, probably from bigger-than-life.

Adjective

  1. Very impressive or imposing; surpassing the ordinary, especially in size or extent
    His mind, vulgar in its effort at refinement, saw everything a little larger than life size, with the outlines blurred, in a golden mist of sentimentality. -- Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

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