Brewer's: Excelsior

Aim at higher things still. It is the motto of the New York State, and has been made popular by Longfellow's poem so named. Used also as the synonym of super-excellent.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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