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单词 to beat to nothing
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to beat (all) to nothing
b. to beat (all) to nothing: to beat or surpass convincingly or by a large margin. Now rare.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > outdo or surpass [verb (transitive)] > surpass or beat
whip1571
overmaster1627
to give (one) fifteen and a bisque1664
to beat (all) to nothing1768
beatc1800
bang1808
to beat (also knock) all to sticks1820
floga1841
to beat (a person, a thing) into fits1841
to beat a person at his (also her, etc.) own game1849
to knock (the) spots off1850
lick1890
biff1895
to give a stone and a beating to1906
to knock into a cocked hat1965
1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xvi. 175 Christians..beat us all to nothing in honour and humanity.
1784 R. Bage Barham Downs II. 263 If the Gods had made you poetical I should have beat Swift's Sacharissa all to nothing.
1819 Metropolis (ed. 2) I. 173 Our Opera..and our balls at Almack's beat them to nothing.
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxix. 312 Away went the good-tempered old fellow down the slide, with a rapidity which came very close upon Mr Weller, and beat the fat boy all to nothing.
1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves xi. 116 ‘Drink them in!’ he was yelling, his voice rising above the perpetual-motion fellow's and beating the missionary service all to nothing.
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