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beat the gun
verb as in jump the gun
Weak matches
Example Sentences
“We’ve been building a movement around ending gun violence for 10 years, and we said one day we’d be strong enough to beat the gun lobby, and here we are.”
He added: “We can beat the NRA. We can beat the gun manufacturers.”
Strategy called for Hunter-Reay to again wait until the closing moments of the session to make his final attempt, but this time he didn't beat the gun.
Rivals had long claimed that tolerant European starters let him beat the gun.
Norway's Crown Prince Harald was so eager that he beat the gun in the last race, thus costing himself a chance for second place overall instead of eighth.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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