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beat someone to it

• succeed in doing something or getting somewhere before someone else.
• "you'd better get a move on or they'll beat you to it"

beat it

• leave.
• "we beat it as fast as we can"
Similar: leave, go, go away, depart, get going, get out, be off with you, shoo, scram, be on your way, run along, skedaddle, split, vamoose, scat, get lost, push off, buzz off, shove off, clear off, go (and) jump in the lake, hop it, bog off, naff off, on your bike, get along, sling your hook, bug off, light out, haul off, haul ass, take a powder, hit the trail, take a hike, nick off, rack off, voetsak, hamba, begone, avaunt, piss off, fuck off, sod off, bugger off,


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