greatest

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | 275 words | Copyright

greatest the Greatest Show on Earth the title under which the American showman Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810–91) billed his circus when it opened in 1871.
I'm the greatest adopted as his catchphrase from 1962 by the American boxer Muhammad Ali (1942–7emsp;).

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