| 释义 |
beat someone to the punch informal Anticipate or forestall someone’s actions: he was driven on by the fear that someone might beat him to the punch in documenting the movement...- Should we really believe that David floated this story without further confirmation because he was concerned that John might beat him to the punch?
- You get a story and you want to go with it before somebody else beats you to the punch, so sometimes it doesn't get checked as thoroughly.
- I am about to share this theory with Byatt, but she beats me to the punch, with yet another theory of her own.
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