to outkick coverage
- phrasal verb
- Informal
:
superar las expectativas
- Many people joked that he managed to outkick coverage when he married such a talented partner.
Examples
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Don’t try to outkick coverage by applying for positions that are well beyond your experience.
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After winning that prestigious award, she truly outkicked coverage in her career.
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He managed to outkick coverage during the game!
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Can she really outkick coverage at such a young age?
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After winning that prestigious award, she truly outkicked coverage in her career.
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Many people joked that he managed to outkick coverage when he married such a talented partner.
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Don’t try to outkick coverage by applying for positions that are well beyond your experience.
Synonyms
33
7.3
To try new ideas that go beyond accepted limits
26
3.7
To do more than is required to help others or complete a task
1
5.3
To do better than people expect and have more success
To get someone or something better than you deserve
Antonyms
How Successful
58
3.7
30
4.8
- Informal
520
1.2
- Informal
39
3.7
898
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase combines a rare verb form 'outkick' (kick more than) with a specialized noun 'coverage' (defensive/coverage scope), so a learner who knows the words might infer a sense of surpassing or doing more than the coverage, but not the idiomatic extension to 'achieve more than expected' without knowledge of the sports/metaphorical usage. Because the meaning is partly derivable from the parts (surpass + coverage) but relies on a culture-specific metaphor and an uncommon collocation, it is not fully predictable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
The verb outkick coverage may come from American football. In that game a kicker can outkick the team's coverage by kicking the ball farther than the players can reach, leaving no one to help. So the phrase means to 'get more than expected' or to try something 'beyond your limits'.