Beat one’s meat
beat one’s meat
verb phrase
(variations: flog or pound may replace beat; dummy or log may replace meat) to m-st-rb-t- (1960s+)
Read Also:
- Beat one's way
beat one’s way verb phrase to travel without paying; travel in the cheapest possible way (1870s+)
- Beat poets
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+)