the best of me

0 01b00To get the best of something/somebody.02br
02b01i00"You got the best of me"02i00 - this means that you have some good sides, some bad sides, some worst sides, and some best sides. And 01i00"you"02i00 (in that sentence) got that the best side of 01i00"you" 02i00to01i00 "me02i

0 No, I don't think it's that, even if that is a (very plain, unadorned) possibility. Thus, we must know the context. 02br
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01b00get/have the best of someone02b02br
00 it's an idiom which means02br
01i00to defeat someone02i0-

1b00get/have the best of someone02br
02b00it's an idiom which means02br
01i00to defeat someone02i02br
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00To defeat someone as in 01i00in a war02i00 or in01i00 competing with the other about their abilities?02i0-

0 In any competition0-

0 So, 01font00(comma needed ?) 02font00could I say these? 02br
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001. Kim beat me in the Maths Competition 01font00(Or 'Maths competition'?)02font00. She had 01font00(or got?)02font00 the best of me. 'You got the best of me', I said.02br

0The idiom is '01b00get02b00 the best of (someone)'. Personally, I would never replace 'get' with 'have'.02br
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00Also, to me the sense of the idiom is that you allow something to control you, and this control affects you negatively or results in some sort of failure to do something that would have been better or preferable.02br
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0 So I was wrong. =))0-

YankeeThe idiom is 'get the best of (someone)'. Personally, I would never replace 'get' with 'have'.Also, to me the sense of the idiom is that you allow something to control you, and this control affects you negatively or results in some sort of failure to do something that would have been better or preferable.I wanted to discuss the problem reasonably, but my anger got t