next to best

Attendees clamored to talk to best actress winner Olivia Colman, who got her trophy engraved next to best director winner Alfonso Cuaron.

Dr. Schadt recruited Mr. Hammerbacher, an overture that coincided with Mr. Hammerbacher’s research into where next to best apply his skills.

From a competitive point of view, AMD is giving Intel a run for its money, putting its A6 — the next to best in the series — against Intel’s Core i3.

This discovery, as it became more and more clear to each of us four in succession, abated successively the volleys of advice which we were offering, and sent us back to our more quiet "Santa Madres" or to meditations on "what was next to best."

George Eliot speaks of that fine polish which is "the expensive substitute for simplicity," and Tennyson says of manners,-- "Kind nature's are the best: those next to best That fit us like a nature second-hand; Which are indeed the manners of the great."