beat all

Idioms  

1. Surpass anything, especially in a strange or amazing way, as in Adam and his cousin Eve eloped—doesn't that beat all! This phrase appears to have replaced beat the Dutch. It is often used in a negative construction, as in the example. [Slang; first half of 1800s] Also see to beat the band.

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Example Sentences

But Pretty Little Baby by the late Connie Francis has beat all of them to claim TikTok's global song of the year, six decades after its release in 1962.

From BBC

“We beat all the teams we played and no one’s gone undefeated to win CIF — these girls are the first to accomplish that,” Ong said.

From Los Angeles Times

But Norris has looked the man to beat all weekend and he delivered an impressive lap on his final run, under intense pressure, to beat his team-mate by 0.375secs.

From BBC

"I can be in front of the team and say 'I believe we can win the league and we can beat all the teams' - but if we don't do it, it can become empty words," he said.

From BBC

Music is "fundamental" to his writing and he's also "looking for that four-four beat all the time while I'm typing".

From BBC