pale by comparison

phrase

: to seem less important, good, serious, etc., when compared with something else

Once you've tasted the local apples, all others pale by comparison.

Examples of pale by comparison in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This year’s struggles pale by comparison. — ABC News, 30 Mar. 2026

Most of the other things that would be at all similar are going to pale by comparison. — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 30 June 2023

Intra-Western divisions since February 2022 pale by comparison. — Nigel Gould-Davies, Foreign Affairs, 8 Mar. 2023

Frankly, what inside baseball there is on hand seems pale by comparison as well. — Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 4 Mar. 2023

Rhymes for pale by comparison

• intercomparison