She was the first star who could outsmart, outmanoeuvre, and
outswear the studio grandees.
There are guys here who stand five foot six, weigh 140 pounds, and can outwork, outdrink,
outswear, and outfight me and 10 guys like me any day of the week." In other words, these are real men.
We shall have old swearing / That they did give the rings away to men; / But we'll outface them, and
outswear them too" (4.2.17-19).
The example of so-called celebrity "ladettes" - whose major claim to fame seems to lie in their ability to outdrink and
outswear men - has produced a generation of female delinquents.
THE bad ladettes, or girls with "geezer power", who can outdrink, outsmoke and
outswear any man are a disgusting lot (The Mirror, May 1).