beat all

English

Verb

beat all (third-person singular simple present beats all, present participle beating all, simple past beat all, past participle beaten all)

1. (colloquial) To outdo everything or everyone; to surpass in every way.
   • 1883 February 21, Puck, New York, page 397, column 3:

     [advertisement] A lightning-rod man in St. Paul, / From a house had a serious fall, / Though battered and bruised, / He said, when he used / St. Jacobs Oil — it simply beats all.

   • 1963, Edward Streeter, Mr. Hobbs' Vacation, New York: Dramatists Play Service, page 6:

     Don't that beat all? You'd think money grew on trees.