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Meaning: (sports,tennis)Victoryat theconclusionof atennismatch.1915,Ralph Henry Barbour, chapter 13, inLeft Tackle Thayer:"Game, set and matchto Byrd!" announced Westcott above the applause. "Byrd wins the School Championship!"; (idiomatic,by extension)An expression indicatingfinality,announcingthat aseriesofevents—usually involving some form ofrivalry—has reached aconclusion.2003February 19, Christopher Buckley, “Opinion: Another March of Folly?”, inNew York Times, retrieved9 June 2015:A few years after that, Mikhail Gorbachev effectively surrendered in a cold war that had lasted almost four decades, and in a few more years the Berlin Wall came down.Game, set, match.2010July 6,Mark Thompson, “Hyping Hypersonic Missiles”, inTime, retrieved9 June 2015:The atom bomb: U.S. 1, U.S.S.R. 0. Then came Sputnik, and the score was tied at 1 apiece. Then Apollo and putting a man on the moon —game, set, match.2014September 30, Dave Altavilla, “The Most Important Promised Feature Of Windows 10”, inForbes, retrieved9 June 2015:This isgame, set and matchfor Microsoft. . . . [I]f Microsoft can pull off one operating system and one companion App Store that functions seamlessly across all device types from smartphones, to tablets, notebooks, hybrid 2-in-1 devices and desktops, all with common apps that just work, they could very well one-up the competition.
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