beat the gun

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beat the gun

Fig. to manage to do something before the ending signal. (Originally from sports, referring to scoring in the last seconds of a game just before the referee fires a gun to signal the end of the game.) The field goal beat the gun and was in the air just in time. Tom tried to beat the gun, but he was one second too slow.

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But chief superintendent Stuart Kernohan has vowed to beat the gun criminals bringing terror to our streets. DANIEL FAMILY IN TRAGIC VIGIL; Mum holds her son as he dies by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England) ``I tried to get out of the blocks first but beat the gun, '' said 18-year-old Ellington. ATHLETICS: Plucky Ellington fails to hit top note by Daily Post (Liverpool, England) At the Labour conference on Thursday, Home Secretary David Blunkett vowed to beat the gun crime culture. Victim gunned down on street by The Journal (Newcastle, England)			beat against beat around the bush beat at beat back beat brains out beat breast beat down beat down on beat down to size beat gums beat head against the wall beat hollow beat into beat it Beat it! beat off beat on beat oneself up beat out beat swords into ploughshares beat the bushes beat the clock beat the daylights out of beat the drum beat the drum for beat the gun beat the hell out of beat the pants off beat the rap beat the socks off beat the system beat the tar out of beat to beat to a pulp beat to it beat to the punch beat to within an inch of life beat up beat up on beaten beats me beauty Beauty is in the eye of the beholder Beauty is only skin deep Beauty is only skin-deep beauty sleep beaver because because of beck beckon to			beat swords into plowshares beat swords into plowshares beat swords into plowshares beat the averages beat the averages beat the averages beat the averages beat the averages beat the bejeezus out beat the bushes beat the bushes beat the bushes beat the bushes beat the bushes Beat the Clock beat the daylights out of Beat the Donk Poker Forum Beat The Dow Beat The Dow beat the drum beat the drum beat the drum beat the drum beat the drum beat the drum for beat the drum for beat the drum for beat the drum for beat the drum for Beat the Geeks beat the gun beat the hell out of Beat the Hell Outta beat the living daylights out of beat the pants off beat the pants off someone beat the rap beat the rap beat the rap beat the rap beat the rap beat the shit out beat the shit out of someone beat the socks off beat the socks off someone Beat the Streets Wrestling Program beat the stuffing out of beat the stuffing out of someone Beat the System beat the tar out beat the tar out beat the tar out beat the tar out beat the tar out of beat the tar out of someone Beat the Train beat to beat to a pulp beat to a pulp beat to a pulp beat to a pulp

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