beat the odds

English

Verb

beat the odds (third-person singular simple present beats the odds, present participle beating the odds, simple past beat the odds, past participle beaten the odds or (colloquial) beat the odds)

  1. (informal, idiomatic) To succeed despite being unlikely to do so.
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