beat to the punch

基本解释

Whitney actually beat Mayo to the punch.
惠特尼实际上比梅奥动作还要快。
Zina:And to get it, we have to 2) beat WebTracker to the punch.
吉娜：为了拿到这个客户，我们得要抢在“网路搜寻家”前面。
Amazon has already shown that it can beat both Apple and Google to the punch by offering to store customers’ music collections in "lockers" in the cloud.
亚马逊已经表明，通过在云端“储物柜”提供存储客户的音乐收藏，它可以比苹果和Android捷足先登。

Usually this would mark the moment when I urgently ask Forbes researcher Sue Radlauer to help me dig up the legal docs so I can publish them on behalf of you readers — except this time I was beat to the punch.
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Once Apple set their stake in the ground for a product announcement, one-by-one, the competition came out to beat Apple to the punch.
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