2022年8月3日 · The phrase 'beats me hollow' as a possible precursor to 'beats me' Alternatively, "beats me" in the relevant sense may have emerged as a shortened form of the longer …

2018年2月19日 · Beats me does not necessarily have a bad connotation, or mean that the speaker thinks the question is unimportant or dumb. From Macmillian Dictionary. used for …

2017年12月13日 · My gut response would yes to the first, no to the second. Linguistically, proper English is whatever phrase makes sense and sounds right to a native speaker, so I would say …

2022年2月11日 · She pipped me to the post. [PHRASE] [British, informal] If someone is pipped at the post or pipped to the post they are just beaten in a competition or in a race to achieve …

2021年10月5日 · "You beat me to it." is a contextual response that implies agreement with an answer previously stated to an open question or query. An example would be: An audience …

2018年5月26日 · I better buy this car before someone beats me to the punch. You could also just use "beat". I wanted to buy the car, but he beat me to it. Your question might be put on hold, or …

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2012年12月24日 · When someone beats you to something by 30 seconds, it means they did something 30 seconds sooner than you. As others have already commented, you can think of …

2016年12月5日 · You sit there and tell me that you have taken me over from Uncle Jimmy like a—like a parcel from a porter, and that you have been saddled with my money and affairs, so …

2015年7月11日 · Here , "Search me" seems to have an idiomatic sense along the lines of "Give me a chance and see if I don't." Another instance appears in " An Artistic Frost ," in the …