beat sb / sth to the punch

beat sb / sth to the punch informalto do or get something before anyone else does先发制人，抢先做某事（得到某物）:•Hitachi has beaten its competitors to the punch with its new palmtop.日立公司比其他竞争者抢先推出了新的掌上计算机。

• marburg diseases
• blackout
• syngases
• aerospatiales
• gasometric method
• quantitative analysis
• swamphen
• opilioness
• leave of absence
• -ont
• abrogation
• give sb a handle (on sth)
• convectively
• greenery
• spiderweb
• albumin-globulin ratio
• drink-driving
• aid and abet
• do-good
• dellenite
• megaprosopous
• moralizingly
• glam.
• barodynamics
• basket meeting
• tiger
• cosmicality
• photoluminescences
• Abbe number
• hpvs
• bicomponent
• the credits
• pi-meson
• distribution curve
• FRAM
• alloch(e)iria
• destoolment
• loony bins
• jumping beans
• assai
• predicative adjectives
• single parent
• buttlegging
• blue copperas
• guide meridian
• pinder
• quartz crystal
• come up/turn up trumps
• autorail
• control instructions
• leave sb / sth be
• unloads
• disk crash
• master compass
• strike forces
• paradise Valley
• the southern hemisphere
• on sound lines
• head-over-heels
• usu.
• active citizenship
• plucky
• tartarised
• casserole
• a good job
• lanes
• take (or get) a pounding
• letties
• spindle-legged
• cauliflower disease
• gabuns
• roadbuilding
• wreathed
• nosebag
• Fish Flours
• knackery
• heterogamete
• satisfactionist
• mark with a white stone
• sound check
• tippier
• tittup(p)y
• Iridaceae
• blackamoor
• retuse
• cause the fur fly
• at that
• burnouts
• first quarters
• intravasation
• to one's cost
• roll sth ↔ out
• naturopath
• Northallerton
• trailhead
• on orders
• discomposed
• weapons-grades
• light-negative
• tenkoes