Idiom Breakdown

get the better of

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Definition

To overwhelm or overcome.

To trick or con.

To gain an advantage over or regarding.

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"Adam said, "My temper got the better of me, and I said things as wasn't true.""
"Though this sort of thing went on every other night or very near it still Stephen's feelings got the better of him in a sense though he knew that Corley's brandnew rigmarole on a par with the others was hardly deserving of much credence."
"Many people returned to work a bit anxious, they acknowledged, but grimly determined not to let terrorists get the better of them."
"Thomas Tuchel got the better of his Manchester City counterpart Pep Guardiola for the third time since succeeding sacked Frank Lampard in January to bring European club football's biggest prize back to Stamford Bridge for the first time since 2012."
"I won't let you get the best of me How'd my heart become my enemy? I won't let you get the best of me How'd my heart become my enemy?"
"He got the better of him early in the match, but ended up losing."
"So long as the intellectual gets the better of the general argument, the most valid objections of the specific issue will be brushed aside."
"With Jones and Botterman hoovering up penalties at the breakdown, Ward and Maud Muir putting the brakes on France's rolling maul and Cokyane waving off her opposite number after getting the better of a scrum, England were winning plenty of battles."

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