英语词汇“beat the band”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. Colloquial phrases: when the band begins to play, when matters become serious; to beat the band, lit. so as to drown the noise made by the band; hence, to exceed, surpass, or beat everything.

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the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > outdo or surpass [verb (intransitive)] > surpass everything

to bear (also have, carry) the pricea1275

it passes1549

to cap the climax1804

to take the rag off (the bush)1810

to beat cockfighting1821

to beat (or bang) Banagher1830

to beat the band1890

1890 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads (1892) 6 O it's ‘Thank you, Mister Atkins’, when the band begins to play.

1897 C. M. Flandrau Harvard Episodes 223 I was on the box-seat driving, you know,—lickety-split, to beat the band.

1900 G. Bonner Hard-pan iii. 81 Doesn't that beat the band?

1910 W. M. Raine Bucky O'Connor ii. 24 It's send for Bucky quick when the band begins to play.

1910 W. M. Raine Bucky O'Connor ii. 236 Eating together like brothers and laughing to beat the band.

1919 P. G. Wodehouse Their Mutual Child ii. vi. 189 You certainly are working to beat the band just now.

1923 A. Christie Murder on Links viii. 101 Well, if that doesn't beat the band!

c. Of a difficulty: To master (a person), to defy all his efforts to conquer it. Also, to baffle, perplex. Phrases to beat the band, to beat the rap: see the nouns.

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the world > action or operation > difficulty > of difficulty: beset (a person) [verb (transitive)] > present a challenge to > of a difficulty: defeat (a person)

beatc1810

c1810 in Smiles Engineers (1862) III. 51 The engineers hereabouts are all bet; and if you really succeed in accomplishing what they cannot do, etc.

1882 J. Payn For Cash Only II. 316 ‘This beats me altogether,’ mused the lawyer.

1930 W. de la Mare On the Edge 135 Why you should have taken so much trouble about it simply beats me.

单词	beat the band
释义	> as lemmas to beat the band b. Colloquial phrases: when the band begins to play, when matters become serious; to beat the band, lit. so as to drown the noise made by the band; hence, to exceed, surpass, or beat everything. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > outdo or surpass [verb (intransitive)] > surpass everything to bear (also have, carry) the pricea1275 it passes1549 to cap the climax1804 to take the rag off (the bush)1810 to beat cockfighting1821 to beat (or bang) Banagher1830 to beat the band1890 1890 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads (1892) 6 O it's ‘Thank you, Mister Atkins’, when the band begins to play. 1897 C. M. Flandrau Harvard Episodes 223 I was on the box-seat driving, you know,—lickety-split, to beat the band. 1900 G. Bonner Hard-pan iii. 81 Doesn't that beat the band? 1910 W. M. Raine Bucky O'Connor ii. 24 It's send for Bucky quick when the band begins to play. 1910 W. M. Raine Bucky O'Connor ii. 236 Eating together like brothers and laughing to beat the band. 1919 P. G. Wodehouse Their Mutual Child ii. vi. 189 You certainly are working to beat the band just now. 1923 A. Christie Murder on Links viii. 101 Well, if that doesn't beat the band! extracted from bandn.³ to beat the band c. Of a difficulty: To master (a person), to defy all his efforts to conquer it. Also, to baffle, perplex. Phrases to beat the band, to beat the rap: see the nouns. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > of difficulty: beset (a person) [verb (transitive)] > present a challenge to > of a difficulty: defeat (a person) beatc1810 c1810 in Smiles Engineers (1862) III. 51 The engineers hereabouts are all bet; and if you really succeed in accomplishing what they cannot do, etc. 1882 J. Payn For Cash Only II. 316 ‘This beats me altogether,’ mused the lawyer. 1930 W. de la Mare On the Edge 135 Why you should have taken so much trouble about it simply beats me. extracted from beatv.¹ < as lemmas
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