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Back and Bigger Than Ever
3 -4 | Back and Better Than Ever | Nicholas Laurier Eveneshen |
Feb 22, 2023 11:32: writeaway changed "Field" from "Tech/Engineering" to "Marketing" , "Field (write-in)" from "(none)" to "Tech/Engineering"
Feb 22, 2023 11:49: Rob Grayson changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
Non-PRO (3): Chris Says Bye, AllegroTrans, Rob Grayson
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Responses
Back and Better Than Ever
Now we're back and better than ever.
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writeaway
: Why drop the "bigger"? Bigger and better is the actual expression and it's hardly unusual /But better is definitely not just a colloquial variation of bigger
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The "actual" expression is many, which is why I'm merely offering a variation the author might find useful for whatever his purposes are. You are also free to offer your own suggestion as a separate response.
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AllegroTrans
: "Better" is not a synonym of "bigger" and this is a company's advertising motto so you cannot change it to something else
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Chris Says Bye
: Better is different to bigger. The phrase is so simple and unambiguous that there's no point in suggesting anything else.
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Tony M
: Depending on the context in which it is being used, 'bigger' may not necessarily mean 'better' (like when "less is more")
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Discussion
My thought:
Formerly they had made good sales and success.
So, they improved the anterior success.
Please explain. It will be interesting to see how you got to that.
I would imagine it means that they had stopped selling TVs for a certain period of time (insolvency, marketing strategy, etc.) but now here they are again with a new range etc.
'Bigger' may as you suggest indicate 'greater', though probably not so much that as either 'selling larger-screen models than they did previously', or possibly 'with a bigger range of models to choose from' — it might in fact not have any real literal sense at all.
This is not exactly an 'idiom' as such, but a common construction with various combinations of qualifiers.
"I think this title is not exactly related to its relevant text, and this seems to be something like an idiom."
We need more context to understand exactly what they mean by "back" and "bigger".