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

There were snores that beggar description, that seemed to express every temperament and every passion of the human soul.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 by Various

Meanwhile King Sasan went in to his wife Nuzhet ez Zeman, who said to him, "I hear that the folk talk of nothing but Kanmakan and attribute to him such qualities as beggar description."

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II by John Payne

Since the high sheriff came to my relief, my confinement is considerably softened, particularly by the admission of the female branches of my family: but the contrast is yet such as to beggar description.

From Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1 by Henry Hunt

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