| 单词 | when the band begins to play |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhen the band begins to play 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! < as lemmas |
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