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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Example Sentences

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

The dirt and squalor of this place beggar description.

From Round About the Carpathians by Crosse, Andrew F.

When the King heard this, he equipped troops to escort her to her sister and brought out to her from his treasuries meat and drink and monies and jewels and rarities which beggar description.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

The years of happiness with my wife beggar description.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur