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beat it

Idioms  

  1. Go away, as in We should beat it before the food's all gone. This term is rude when used as an imperative, as in Stop pestering me—beat it! [Slang; late 1800s]

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It didn’t sound great — it sounded like a demo that you’d give to a musician in hopes that they would beat it.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Teams who were being pressed by opposition forwards at goal-kicks are now playing long, to beat it.

From BBC • Dec. 7, 2025

Gold could get close to $5000 per ounce in 2026 and beat it in 2027, predicts Deutsche Bank.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 26, 2025

But Martin, working with pathologist Larry J. Stowell, was able to pinpoint the cause of that “rapid blight”—a fungus, Labyrinthula terrestris—and quickly work up a program to beat it back.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

They beat it out with flails, he and the woman together.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

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