| 单词 | to beat one's way |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto beat one's way b. to beat one's way: to travel, or make one's way, spec. by illicit means. U.S. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > travel by illicit means to beat one's way1883 1883 G. W. Peck Peck's Sun (Milwaukee) 16 June 1/2 He started home, beating his way on the trains. 1887 M. Roberts Western Avernus 235 I could walk or ‘beat my way’ on the train. 1891 C. Roberts Adrift in Amer. 53 To beat one's way, or to beat the conductor or the railroad, are equivalent phrases for travelling in the cars without paying any fare. 1891 C. Roberts Adrift in Amer. 195 There was nothing for it but to start out and beat my way there. 1904 N.Y. Tribune 8 May 10 [They should] stop trying to ‘beat their way’ by stealing a right of way that belongs to other people. 1926 J. Black You can't Win vi. 75 ‘Traveling?’ he asked... ‘Beating it.’ < as lemmas |
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