English-Finnish translations for beat to the punch

• ehtiä ensin

Definition of beat to the punch

• To do something before somebody else is able to

Examples

• I was planning to take care of the problem for him, but he beat me to the punch and did it himself.

Related words

• march to the beat of a different drum
• march to the beat of a different drummer
• not to beat around the bush
• march to the beat of a different drumm
• resort to beating around the bush
• to beat the band
• to beat the air
• rain to beat the band