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beat someone or something off

to drive someone or something away by beating. They beat the enemy off. The army beat off the savage attack, saving the town. I was able to beat off the intruder.

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the Squire was sick and peevish; he had been all day glooming over Dick's estrangement - for so he put it to himself, and now with growls, cold words, and the cold shoulder, he beat off all advances, and entrenched himself in a just resentment. Tales and Fantasies by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context Our only hope, he said, lay in reaching his tribe which was quite strong enough in their mountain fastness to beat off any number of Sagoths. At the Earth's Core by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context Others of the Jackdaws rushed at the Saw-Horse; but that animal, being still upon his back, kicked out so viciously with his wooden legs that he beat off as many assailants as did the Woodman's axe. The Marvelous Land of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context			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 beaten beats me			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 beat it beat it 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 on beat on beat on beat on beat on beat oneself up Beat Oscillator beat out beat out beat out beat out beat out Beat Per Second beat poetry beat reception beat swords into ploughshares beat swords into ploughshares beat swords into ploughshares beat swords into ploughshares beat swords into plowshares beat swords into plowshares beat swords into plowshares beat the averages beat the averages beat the averages beat the averages beat the averages beat the bejeezus out beat the bushes beat the bushes

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