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One too Many for Him
(I was). I outwitted him; or “One too much for you.”
“You have lost, old fellow; I was one too much for you.”
—Gaboriau: The Mystery of Orcival, chap. x.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on One too Many for Him from Infoplease:
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