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.
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Then again, Miami beat the odds this past weekend, winning the four-team Hattiesburg Regional as the three seed.
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Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 5 June 2025
Idle beat the odds after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2019 and survived.
—Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 26 May 2025
Rookie minicamp begins next week, and that’ll give me a much better gauge of which UDFAs may beat the odds.
—James Boyd, New York Times, 2 May 2025
The whole industry is fueled by filmmakers’ belief that their artwork will beat the odds, and those odds are becoming tougher.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2025
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Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 5 June 2025
Idle beat the odds after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2019 and survived.
—Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 26 May 2025
Rookie minicamp begins next week, and that’ll give me a much better gauge of which UDFAs may beat the odds.
—James Boyd, New York Times, 2 May 2025
The whole industry is fueled by filmmakers’ belief that their artwork will beat the odds, and those odds are becoming tougher.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2025
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“Beat the odds.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beat%20the%20odds. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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