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beat it
Idioms and Phrases
Go away, as in We should beat it before the food's all gone . This term is rude when used as an imperative, as in Stop pestering me—beat it! [ Slang ; late 1800s]Example Sentences
"You're really happy and proud of yourself but, at the same time, you're still yearning for more," says Nuguse, who broke the indoor mile world record in February only to see Ingebrigtsen beat it five days later.
"You've got a nice open field at the back that's not going to get built on. It's a lovely location, and there's Yeadon Tarn just down the road. You can't beat it, living here."
"I mean that fight and that desire to defend for each other, to work hard for each other and to be hard to beat. It's so important to be hard to beat."
“I remember 20 years ago as a grad student naïvely thinking that since it was clear that we had diagnostics and drugs for TB, we would be able to beat it and I might have to pursue a different line of research later in life,” Dr. Jonathan Stillo, a medical anthropologist at Wayne State University, said in an email interview with Salon.
For a beat, it seems like he’s going to whack her and leave her for dead.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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