get the better of

Perhaps Shevchenko looked outside the flyweight division because she has continuously got the better of foes within it.

She said the hardest part about doing I'm A Celebrity is making sure she doesn't let her shyness get the better of her.

Nothing else explains why Celtic, so much better than Rangers last season, found it so fiendishly difficult to get the better of them.

Nationalism and xenophobia: There are endless proclamations of national superiority and hatred of foreigners; yet despite this claimed superiority, wily foreigners are always seen to be getting the better of the national community.

Looking at both teams over the past few weeks you would expect Villa to get something here, but I need to use all my knowledge to get the better of AI.