beat (something) out of (someone or something)
beat (something) out of (someone or something)
1. To aggressively get something (often information) from someone, either through interrogation or physical violence. Let me do the questioning—I'll beat the truth out of that witness. Luckily, a teacher came along before the bully could beat my lunch money out of me.
2. To repeatedly strike an object to remove something from it, usually in an attempt to clean it. I tried beating the dust out of that rug, to no avail.
See also: beat, of, out
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- strap (someone or something) onto (someone or something)
- strapping
- champ down on (someone or something)
- come out fighting
- come out swinging
- hot on the track of (someone or something)
- hot on the trail
- hot on the trail of (someone or something)
- charge down on
- charge down on (someone or something)