beggar description

Idioms  

1. Defy or outdo any possible description, as in The stage set was so elaborate, it beggared description. This term, alluding to the idea that words are insufficient to do something justice, was already used by Shakespeare in Antony and Cleopatra (2:2), “For her own person It beggared all description.”

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beggar description

And from sun rise to sun set, I passed through scenes and experiences that beggar description.

From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2019

The acoustics are so complex that they beggar description.

From Time Magazine Archive

The scenes in the Jewish quarter at the close of the riot, beggar description.

From Rabbi and Priest A Story by Milton Goldsmith

But the pomp of carriage, the circumstance of gait which he assumed, the manner of the man beggar description.

From The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates

When the King heard this, he equipped troops to escort her to her sister and brought out to her from his treasuries meat and drink and monies and jewels and rarities which beggar description.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

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