get the better of

Questions about get the better of

What does get the better of mean?

get the better of means "win a victory over".

What is another word for get the better of?

Close synonyms include overcome, defeat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is get the better of a common word?

get the better of is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.