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Beat it! (mainly American, informal)

a rude way of telling someone to go away. OK you kids, beat it!

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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 More results

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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