out-Herod Herod

To deliberately outdo someone in cruelty, idiocy or something else so as to get back at them.

I didn't care what anyone else thought of his wedding speech in the marquee; one way or another, unaccustomed to public speaking as he was, it drove me to the edge of sanity. So in the end I just got up there when he was finished and for the next three hours, until the Security bundled me out the flap, I decided to out-Herod Herod and went for it.

by Fearman October 4, 2007

cut out the herd

to be picked or to pick someone or something out of a large group of similair objects.

D: Did you go and talk to that girl on the dance floor.
C: ya she was cut out the herd

by T- Dog September 13, 2006