"Beat me to the punch" nghĩa là gì?

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'Beat one to the punch' = đánh bại ai bằng cú đấm trước khi đối thủ kịp tung ra cú đấm trả -> làm/nói gì đó trước hoặc nhanh hơn người khác.

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In an interview with FN’s sister publication WWD, Salter shared, “My partner [Shaquille O’Neal] beat me to the punch in mentioning it a few weeks ago: I’d love to buy Reebok. Maybe one day Adidas will let it go.”

This is a situation I’m all too familiar with. I have fairly common name (thanks for ruining my Google rankings, baseball guy) and a close-to-that-name email address (thanks for stealing my name, the David Murphy who beat me to the punch in Gmail). Consequently, I’m sometimes getting others’ emails that weren’t meant for me, and my doppelgänger sometimes gets my email that wasn’t meant for him.

I have been meaning to write a letter to the editor for some time regarding what I see as the mindless call for equal pay for the women's national soccer team. When I saw Rachel Greszler's column in the Morning News on Tuesday with the headline "Why the pay gap between women's and men's soccer?" I thought she beat me to the punch; I waited too long. But, while she made some valid points, she missed by far the most important point: a difference in ability.

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