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beat it (slang)

to go away immediately I told the kid to beat it, and that's the last I saw of him. She said she was going to pack her bag and beat it back to Tennessee.

Usage notes: often used as an order: Go on, beat it!

Etymology: based on the phrase beat a retreat (leave a battle quickly)

See also: beat

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But the dark patch was not stationary, it kept moving; and it was not a village but some tall stalks of wormwood sticking up through the snow on the boundary between two fields, and desperately tossing about under the pressure of the wind which beat it all to one side and whistled through it. Master and Man by Tolstoy, Leo View in context Soon as it's done we can beat it for home an' let the down-town boys take the car back to the shop. Jerry of the Islands by London, Jack View in context It was a hard bargain, but one that Wade could afford to take up, for if the wheat were to freeze out, or if the grasshoppers should eat it, or the chinch bugs ruin it, or a hail storm beat it down into the mud, or if any of the many hatreds Stepmother Nature holds out toward those trusting souls who would squeeze a living from her hard hands--if any of these misfortunes should transpire, he would be out nothing but labor, and that was the one thing he and Martin could afford to risk. Dust by Haldeman, Julius Mr. and Mrs. View in context	bear with bear witness to beard beard in den beard the lion in his den bearing beast beat beat a dead horse beat a path to door beat a retreat beat about the bush beat against beat around the bush beat at beat back beat brains out beat breast beat down beat down on beat down to size beat gums beat head against the wall beat hollow beat into beat it Beat it! beat off beat on beat oneself up beat out beat swords into ploughshares beat the bushes beat the clock beat the daylights out of beat the drum beat the drum for beat the gun beat the hell out of beat the pants off beat the rap beat the socks off beat the system beat the tar out of beat to beat to a pulp beat to it beat to the punch beat to within an inch of life beat up beat up on	Beat Cross Frequency beat down beat down beat down beat down beat down beat down on Beat Down Posse Beat Down Productions beat down to size beat frequencies Beat frequency Beat frequency Beat frequency oscillator beat generation beat generation beat generations beat generations Beat Goes On beat gums Beat Happening beat head against the wall beat hollow beat hollow beat hollow beat hollow beat hollow beat in beat in beat into beat it Beat It On Down The Line Beat It Up Beat it! Beat Jack out of Doors beat knee Beat Me to It Beat Mike Network Beat Movement beat note Beat of a watch Beat of drum Beat of the Angel Beat of the Drum Beat of the War beat off beat off beat off beat off beat off beat on beat on beat on beat on beat on beat oneself up Beat Oscillator beat out beat out beat out beat out

But the dark patch was not stationary, it kept moving; and it was not a village but some tall stalks of wormwood sticking up through the snow on the boundary between two fields, and desperately tossing about under the pressure of the wind which beat it all to one side and whistled through it.

Master and Man by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

Soon as it's done we can beat it for home an' let the down-town boys take the car back to the shop.

Jerry of the Islands by London, Jack View in context

It was a hard bargain, but one that Wade could afford to take up, for if the wheat were to freeze out, or if the grasshoppers should eat it, or the chinch bugs ruin it, or a hail storm beat it down into the mud, or if any of the many hatreds Stepmother Nature holds out toward those trusting souls who would squeeze a living from her hard hands--if any of these misfortunes should transpire, he would be out nothing but labor, and that was the one thing he and Martin could afford to risk.

Dust by Haldeman, Julius Mr. and Mrs. View in context

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