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

The impression his stories made everywhere was so strong as to beggar description.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 08 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Various

Nothing could be better than the excellent food prepared by the ship's steward, but these emigrants prefer to bring with them provisions that beggar description.

From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 by Furniss, Harry

The events that occurred during the following hundred or more days beggar description.

From The Smoky God, or, a voyage to the inner world by Emerson, Willis George