beat it

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]

Example Sentences

The track in France featured a tool called Wavelight—a string of lights laid along the inside of the track that illuminates in sync with a record time, so a runner knows the exact pace he must follow to beat it.

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When the reporter, Sean Zittel, persisted, White cut him short: "You have a question for these two, no? Beat it."

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It’s very reliant on humidity, what’s happening outside, how much time, the window on the thermometer and how much you beat it in the mixer to whether it’s going to pour on the cake or not be able to go on the cake at all.

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He was anxious to leave — and warned visiting journalists to beat it out of town by sundown.

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“It’s one of those relationships where somebody can move a certain way and you know that they don’t particularly like that, or they have another pitch or they think they can beat it.”

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