单词 | beat a retreat |
释义 | beat a retreat (once / 13017 pages) v WORD FAMILY beat a retreat: beaten a retreat, beating a retreat, beats a retreat USAGE EXAMPLESAnd in the past 150 years they have beat a retreat nearly 10 times hastier than they did in the previous 7,000. Washington Post(Nov 11, 2016) And with that, she beat a retreat back to her seat, one of the last hurdles to her nomination behind her. Time(Oct 20, 2016) They stared for a moment, evidently reappraising their high-minded roommate as some kind of cokehead or very specialized deviant, before beating a retreat. The New Yorker(Apr 11, 2016) v depart hastily Hyper depart, quit, take leave go away or leave |
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