at best

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   used for saying what is the best opinion you can have of sb / sth, or the best thing that can happen, when the situation is bad

In the movies · 11

• The locations are scant at best.American Movie1999
• Our little alliance with you is tenuous at best.Captain Marvel2019
• at best, he had come to know just one thing:It's Such a Beautiful Day2012
• You're an associate producer at best.Argo2012
• They're C team. B team at best.The Beekeeper2024
• That dog was faintly blue at best.Something the Lord Made2004
• Rejoin convoy at best speed. Modified zigzag."Greyhound2020
• You're a stalking horse, at best.Air2023

Learn it in full scenes

• American Movie1999
  • Mark's Twelfth Hour Deadline
  • Mark Pitches Northwestern
  • Family Fights Over the Phone Bill

From the same entry

• as best you can
• all the best
• be for the best
• the best of a bad bunch
• the best of three, five
• the best that money can buy
• do, mean, for the best
• have the best of
• make the best of
• to the best of your knowledge
• with the best
• the best of the bunch

More idioms

• in short
• keep your distance
• see fit
• as it happens
• a matter of life and death
• it's a free country
• come and go
• to bits
• for better or worse
• give the creeps
• come first
• have it your own way