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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beat all

Notice that over both the five- and seven-year periods the S&P 500 beat all three ETFs, and it beat two of the three ETFs over each of the one- and three-year periods.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

“He told me that he’s confident that if somebody gives him the money and the compute, he could build something that was going to beat all the models from OpenAI and Google,” said Dhingra.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026

“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 ● Nov. 9, 2025

So I tried to play along with the ding ding- a-ding ride cymbal thing that always works for jazz and immediately got the beat all turned around and messed up.

From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick