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Examples:lit. stamping and beating the chest (idiom); fig. angry or stressed about sth—fig. two hearts beating as one—two hearts beating as one—speak evasively (idiom); beating about the bush—thunderous beating of drums—beating with wooden staves (as corporal punishment)—suffer bullying and beating [idiom.]—three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof rip the tiles [idiom.]—beat the snake death or it will cause endless calamity (common saying); nip the problem in the bud—beat the drum and sound the gong (idiom); fig. to order an advance or retreat—beat a tiger from the front door, only to have a wolf come in at the back (idiom); fig. facing one problem after another—beat the gong to recall troops (idiom); to order a retreat—lit. one strong beat and one weak beats in a measure of music (two beats in the bar) (idiom); fig. follow a prescribed pattern the letter—knock out (i.e. to beat in a knock-out tournament)—hearts linked as one, just as the proverbial rhinoceros communicates emotion telepathically through his single horn (idiom); fig. two hearts beat as one—strip, tie up, hang and beat sb, an ancient torture technique—lit. beat the grass scare the snake—beat time with a percussion instrument made of pottery—two hearts beat as one (idiom); a kindred spirit—lit. on the beat, move apart; fig. break-up (of marriage or business partners)—war of 1920 between Northern Warlords, in which the Zhili faction beat the Anhui faction and took over the Beijing government—lit. one strong beat and three weak beats in a measure of music (four beats in the bar) (idiom); fig. scrupulous attention detail—lit. on the beat, together now (idiom); Start dancing!— |