beat the odds

idiom

: to succeed despite not having a good chance of succeeding

Most new restaurants fail, but this one somehow managed to beat the odds.

Examples of beat the odds in a Sentence

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Every year a few of those teams beat the odds by not beating themselves to win 10 or 11 games, and make the playoffs. —Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Dec. 2025

Both beat the odds and paved the way for many more vegan restaurants to come. —Mikayla Price, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2025

On paper, Lilli Ethier beat the odds after leaving foster care. —Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2025

But Connaughton outlasted Dinwiddie, who was waived in the preseason, and beat the odds stacked against him — something Hornets president of basketball operations Jeff Peterson even admitted during a team meeting as seen on an episode of the franchise’s reel access series. —Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 14 Nov. 2025

Rhymes for beat the odds

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