Beat one’s way


beat one’s way

verb phrase

to travel without paying; travel in the cheapest possible way (1870s+)

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    numerous u.s. poets concentrated in california in the 1950s and noted chiefly for their rejection of poetic as well as social conventions, exemplified through experimental, often informal phrasing and diction and formless verse that attempts to capture spontaneity of thought and feeling.

  • Beat someone at his or her own game

    surp-ss someone in his or her own specialty or undertaking. for example, jean knew that if she matched the new store’s discount she would keep all her customers and beat the new compet-tors at their own game. the use of game for any kind of undertaking or scheme dates from the mid-1200s.

  • Beat someone in

    beat someone in verb phrase to initiate someone into a gang by -ssaulting them: ”when you’re getting ‘beat in’ or ‘quoted’ ”, one female ”g” explained (1990s+ street gang)

  • Beat someone out

    beat someone out verb phrase to surp-ss or best someone, esp by a narrow margin: she just beat me out for the job, probably because she had more schooling (1840s+)

  • Beat someone out of something

    beat someone out of something verb phrase to take something away by cheating or fraud: he was so simple they beat him out of his money before he knew it (1880s+)


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