game, set, match

alternative game, set and match

1. hobbiesVictory at the conclusion of a tennis match.

   "Game, set and match to Byrd!" announced Westcott above the applause. "Byrd wins the School Championship!"

   1915, Ralph Henry Barbour, chapter 13, in Left Tackle Thayer

2. broadlyidiomaticAn expression indicating finality, announcing that a series of events—usually involving some form of rivalry—has reached a conclusion.

   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.

   2010 July 6, Mark Thompson, “Hyping Hypersonic Missiles”, in TIME, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2016, retrieved 09 Jun 2015

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   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.

   2003 February 19, Christopher Buckley, “Opinion: Another March of Folly?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 23 Mar 2021, retrieved 09 Jun 2015

   This is game, set and match for 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.

   2014 September 30, Dave Altavilla, “The Most Important Promised Feature Of Windows 10”, in Forbes, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2016, retrieved 09 Jun 2015