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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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The earnings beat all boils down to the artificial-intelligence boom, which has driven up demand for data and hard drives.

From Barron's

The earnings beat all boils down to the artificial-intelligence boom, which has driven up demand for data and hard drives.

From Barron's

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