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

She was in capital spirits though, and the loving glances she bestowed on me beggar description.

From Without Dogma by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

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 Yates, Dornford

The horrors which were here enacted beggar description, and leave a hideous stain upon the page of history.

From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)