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 are some scenes that beggar description, and this was such an one.

From Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lynch, Lawrence L.

Day and night cease to be relative terms, while the strange effect and the magic brightness of a Polar night utterly beggar description.

From Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia by Ballou, Maturin Murray

In the cities the overcrowding has become so excessive, and the accomodation available for the poor is so inadequate, costly and squalid, as to almost beggar description.

From Darkest India A Supplement to General Booth's "In Darkest England, and the Way Out" by Booth-Tucker, Commissioner