pip to the post | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,sports)Toovercomeastrongcompetitorin asportingevent, especially bygainingasmalladvantageat the lastdecisivemoment.2012June 23, Simon Usborne,The Independent, article title:"Pipped to the post: What happens to famous athletes who just miss a place on the podium?" (end of the title) A place on the podium can be missed by tiny fractions – and finish a career. Simon Usborne talks to some famous Olympian losers about the moment their dream ended.; (idiomatic)Toovercomeaprominentcompetitor,gainingtheirposition, especially by making asmart,suddenmove.1988January 4, A Soap That Stings,New York Magazine, page14:What may barEastEndersfrom acceptance in the U.S. is not immorality butunintelligibility.PBSmay even distribute a glossary ofCockneyphrases so that Americans will know what a character means when he or she is "over the moon," "skint," "pipped to the post," or "in the club" (happy, broke, defeated, or pregnant).2004, Iwan Rhys Morus,When Physics Became King, page158:Both werepipped to the postin 1888 by the German physicist Heinrich Hertz, a student of Hermann von Helmholtz (himself one of the towering figures of nineteenth-century German physics) who announced to the world that he had found a way of propagating and detecting these long-sought-for electromagnetic waves.

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