beat to

beat to  {v.},  {informal}
To do something before someone else does it.
I was waiting to buy a ticket but only one ticket was left, and another man beat me to it.
We were planning to send a rocket into space but the Russians beat us to it.
Compare: GET THE JUMP ON.
Categories: informal verb
Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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