As for best, it may be said that this dictionary goes like Dr. Johnson's watches. It will also tick off a lot of people.

[1979Alena]

Помогите, плз, перевести (то, что в теме), вот контекст
Defining Womyn (and Others)
Random House's new dictionary is gender neutral, politically correct -- and an English-lover's disappointment

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Samuel Johnson should be living at this hour; the English language has need of him. Though he was never at a loss for words, the great lexicographical drudge would probably be confounded to read the new Random House Webster's College Dictionary. It is bugled as "the New Definition of Dictionary," the "newest, biggest and best."

Newest, yes; biggest, yes -- for a college dictionary (180,000 entries). As for best, it may be said that this dictionary goes like Dr. Johnson's watches. It will also tick off a lot of people.

[lesdn]

На правах варианта:
Несмотря на то, что данный словарь по точности определений сравним с часами Профессора Джонсона, многих людей он может привести в ярость.

Имхо

[nephew]

... Лучший? в лучшем случае, этот словарь можно определить по Сэмюэлю Джонсону (Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true). Кроме того, многих он будет раздражать

(н/п: tick - тикать, tick off - раздражать

[torq]

тут можно бы и вот так:

"... развивая сравнение Д-ра Джонсона словарей с часами, можно сказать, что данный словарь, как и неточные часы, выведет из себя множество людей"