beat something out
beat out
1. To outperform or best someone in order win or achieve something. You beat out a lot of very qualified candidates for this internship.
2. To strike the keys of a piano to play a song. I think your sister is trying to beat out "Hot Cross Buns" on the piano. Whenever my neighbor is beating out something on his piano, you can hear it all the way down the street.
3. To strike a keyboard in order to type something. You better beat that essay out fast because class starts in an hour!
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
beat something out
tv. to type something or play something on the piano. He beat out a cheery song on the old ivories.
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McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- beat out
- beat someone/something out
- get (something) out of (something)
- knock (the) spots off (someone or something)
- knock spots off
- knock spots off somebody/something
- knock spots off someone/something
- charm (someone) with (something)
- charm with
- charming