beat all

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beat all

  1. (colloquial) To outdo everything or everyone; to surpass in every way.
    • 1883 February 21, Puck, New York, page 397, column 3:
      [advertisement] A lightning-rod man in St. Paul, / From a house had a serious fall, / Though battered and bruised, / He said, when he used / St. Jacobs Oil — it simply beats all.
    • 1963, Edward Streeter, Mr. Hobbs' Vacation, New York: Dramatists Play Service, page 6:
      Don't that beat all? You'd think money grew on trees.