Значение идиомы beat to

[beat to] {v.}, {informal} To do something before someone else does it.

I was waiting to buy a ticket but only one ticket was left, and another man beat me to it.

We were planning to send a rocket into space but the Russians beat us to it.

Compare: GET THE JUMP ON.


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Значение идиомы beat to