beat hollow

Idioms  

1. see under beat the pants off.

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beat hollow

V. be superior &c. adj.; exceed, excel, transcend; outdo, outbalance†, outweigh, outrank, outrival, out-Herod; pass, surpass, get ahead of; over-top, override, overpass, overbalance, overweigh, overmatch; top, o'ertop, cap, beat, cut out; beat hollow; outstrip &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

The South Sea Islanders beat hollow logs with clubs, marking time and creating melody by these notes.

From History of Human Society by Frank W. (Frank Wilson) Blackmar

They beat hollow trees as drums with hands, and then scream as music to it; when men hear them, they go to the sokos; but sokos never go to men with hostility.

From The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 Continued By A Narrative Of His Last Moments And Sufferings, Obtained From His Faithful Servants Chuma And Susi by Horace Waller

Their hand was beat hollow: he held a flush.

From Dreams and Days: Poems by George Parsons Lathrop