beggar description

Idioms and Phrases

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.”

Example Sentences

It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad.

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The sufferings endured by the poor Highlanders in the succeeding winter truly beggar description.

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The scene that followed would beggar description—drinking, dancing, shouting, that made the Byannah Pass echo again!

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I will not describe my years of happiness with my noble wife; such years beggar description.

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Behind the two heroic combats scenes were occurring which beggar description.

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