beat the odds

:  to strike repeatedly:

:  to hit repeatedly so as to inflict pain

:  to walk on :  tread

:  a single stroke or blow especially in a series

:  pulsation, tick

:  a sound produced by or as if by beating (see ¹beat)

:  being in a state of exhaustion :  exhausted

:  sapped of resolution or morale

:  of, relating to, or being beatniks

:  beatnik

:  inequalities

:  degree of unlikeness

:  an amount by which one thing exceeds or falls short of another