| 单词 | to beat all to sticks |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto beat (also knock) all to sticks P11. to beat (also knock) all to sticks: to surpass completely; to defeat decisively. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > outdo or surpass [verb (transitive)] > surpass or beat whip1571 overmaster1627 to give (one) fifteen and a bisque1664 to beat (all) to nothing1768 beatc1800 bang1808 to beat (also knock) all to sticks1820 floga1841 to beat (a person, a thing) into fits1841 to beat a person at his (also her, etc.) own game1849 to knock (the) spots off1850 lick1890 biff1895 to give a stone and a beating to1906 to knock into a cocked hat1965 1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 8 85 Which in the west country beats our stot-beef here all to sticks. 1840 W. M. Thackeray Barber Cox in Comic Almanack 16 When I came to know his game, I used to knock him all to sticks; or, at least, win six games to his four. 1889 Sc. Notes & Queries 3 75/2 The game is all very well as a craze—indeed, it beats the wheelbarrow craze all to sticks. 1923 Humorist 29 Sept. 226/2 ‘Beats motoring all to sticks,’ I told him, for nobody can afford more thoroughly to despise motors than the man who can't buy one. 1945 in J. Fletcher-Cooke Emperor's Guest (2013) App. iii. 314 We somehow feel a sort of pleasure at hearing Premier Churchill and his party were beaten all to sticks by the Labour Party headed by Attlee at the recent general election. < as lemmas |
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