prize above

prize (someone or something) above (someone or something else)

To put greater value on someone or something, or to regard someone or something more highly or favorably, than someone or something else. You really shouldn't prize the needs of your company above the needs of your family. I always felt like Mom prized our baby brother above Tommy and I when we were growing up.
See also: above, prize, something
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

prize someone or something above someone or something

to value someone or something more than anyone or anything else. He prized his only daughter above everyone else in the world. Scott seemed to prize his sports car above all the members of his family.
See also: above, prize
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • be/have done with somebody/something
  • be in line with (someone or something)
  • better of
  • (someone or something) promises well
  • begin with
  • begin with (someone or something)
  • bird has flown, the
  • beware of
  • beware of (someone or something)
  • be rough on (someone or something)
References in periodicals archive
City have never been beyond the semi-final stage of the competition, and many believe manager Pep Guardiola will be prioritising Europe's elite prize above the Premier League this season.
Man City's dream and nightmare scenarios in Champions League group stage draw; City were knocked out in the quarter-finals by Tottenham last season and will be hoping to do much better this time around
There is one friendship you prize above all others, even if you have led separate lives.
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Mayor of Kirklees and avid cyclist, Martyn Bolt, cycled to meet pupils and young racing stars, Gabriel Cullaigh and Levi Moody, principal Angela Williams and sta member Lee Speight in the college's new sports barn, to raise the weighty prize above their heads.
Tour trophy in young hands
Gabriel held back on the one piece of information England would prize above all.
We know Shivnarine will fight all the way, admits in-form Bell
London, Aug 17(ANI): England off-spinner Graeme Swann has revealed that Indian batsman Rahul Dravid, not Sachin Tendulkar, is the wicket that his team prize above all others as they attempt to whitewash India in a Test series for the first time in 37 years.
Swann says England prizes Dravid's wicket more than Tendulkar's
If you are able to mark offall the numbers on any one of the six prize grids during the game, you win the prize above that grid.
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Mercy, my sponsored daughter is growing up and World Vision has made it possible for her to gain that thing Ugandans prize above all others, an education.
No 4x4 lifts to school in the African bush, just walking; COLUMNISTS deniserobertson straight-talking sense from the nation's favourite agony aunt
Mercy, my sponsored daughter, is growing up and World Vision have made it possible for her to gain that thing Ugandans prize above all others, an education.
A vision that really does make a difference; DENISE ROBERTSON
And he became the fourth different jockey to win the race for a trainer who values this prize above all others and marked his fifth victory in the pounds 150,000 6f handicap by saddling a one-two for good measure.
Nicholls delight as he grabs a fifth Gold Cup; AYR YESTERDAY
Who doesn't believe the one thing Newcastle should prize above all others is some kind of stability instead of the ridiculous Toon Army knee-jerk, cry-me-a-river wailings?
Macca: Souey all at sea on Toon Shep of fools
Yet the precept ors of all religion and faith whose wisdom we prize above all others tell us one cannot answer force with force.
Thought for the week
It is a measure of what makes Sant'Egidio unique that while other new movements inside Catholicism get excited principally about ecclesiastical honors, such as the canonization of their founders, Sant'Egidio--which, to be sure, does not snub signs of hierarchical favor--nevertheless covets the Nobel Prize above all.
Perennial hopeful sees Nobel pass by again. (World)
The gift he'd prize above all would be a first Ireland cap - and a chance to prove himself on the international stage.
Kiely is waiting to be Given top Gigg
We know we maybe can't match the money being tabled, even by sides like Rotherham, but we can certainly offer something in football terms that he would prize above that.
LET DON'T EURO DREAM OUR DIE; Lasley's plea to FIFA not to throw Well out