bigger than Ben Hur

Etymology
A comparison to the extravagance of the 1899 play Ben-Hur. Though the phrase is often erroneously claimed to have been coined in reference to the 1959 film, use of the phrase long predates the film.

Phrase

 * 1)  huge, extravagant.
 * 2) * 1916, Columbia Theatre advertisement in The Argonaut, Volume 79, No. 2071, page 379:
 * "en"

- 150 People, Arabs, Camels, Horses, Donkeys and Goats The Eighth Wonder of the World BIGGER THAN “BEN-HUR”