beat someone to the punch

beat someone to the punch informal anticipate or forestall someone's actions 〈非正式〉先人一招, 先发制人。

• second-foot day
• battered wife syndrome
• liebig condensers
• Air Miles
• ergograms
• safe period
• flexitimers
• elder brethren
• look like
• extraneous
• syzygal
• bronchographic
• shop assistants
• addometer
• bright and breezy
• sleeve board
• entomophobia
• cut loose
• repeat like a metronome
• strategic airlift
• biocytinase
• at one gulp
• phytotherapies
• ice dams
• Sc.M.
• stand a chance (of doing sth)
• grasshook
• corybantic
• wire cloth
• doby
• hematozoon
• Norman style
• teals
• letterzine
• bore impression
• fearnaught
• bacaus
• myelography
• swang
• Jackie-watcher
• great-circle sailing
• paleocrystic
• （as） right as rain
• Comptroller General
• Ghazze
• sweeneys
• be on edge
• pluperfect
• dentitions
• top-grade
• Chatelet, Marquise odu
• baulker
• plied
• refinances
• riotest
• play hookey
• globus pallidus
• scissors jack
• windsuckers
• shyly
• mix well
• picking system
• Connection Machine
• ASIO
• spiral binding
• put in (或into) force
• responsible to/for
• corporeities
• cofactors
• Reconstructionist
• kimono
• go postal
• penetrants
• water pepper
• pretty-pretties
• hyperglycemia
• smoke-ho
• teratogenics
• churn sth ↔ up
• recover one's feet(或legs,footing)
• war-gods
• phonecasting
• grists
• repetitional
• stimulation
• da.
• balanced network
• blue rose
• snow blindness
• leg before wicket
• standard score
• sanctimonial
• bulldozings
• feel like a million
• cauliflower
• box numbers
• speech is silver,silence is golden
• artificial kidney
• Dausset, Jean
• frightenings