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above all

[above all] {adv. phr.}

Of first or highest importance; most especially.

/Children need many things, but above all they need love./

Syn.: [FIRST AND LAST].

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates © 2010

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