O — Osmand to Out in the Fifteen (Part 3 of 3)

have it out with him one of these days;” “I had it out with him”- i.e. “I spoke my mind freely and without reserve.” The idea is that of letting loose pent-up disapprobation.

Out-Herod Herod (To). To go beyond even Herod in violence, brutality, or extravagant language. In the old miracle plays Herod was the type of tyranny and violence, both of speech and of action.

Out and Out Incomparably, by far, or beyond measure; as, “He was out and out the best man.” “It is an out-and-outer” means nothing can exceed it. It is the word utter, the Anglo-Saxon útaerre.

Out in the Fifteen - i.e. in the rebel army of the Pretender, in 1715 (George I.). (Howitt : History of England, vol. iv. p. 347.)