beat a (quick) retreat Idioma
beat a hasty retreat
run away from, leave quickly When the boys heard the siren they beat a hasty retreat.
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v. phr. 1. To give a signal, esp. by beating a drum, to go back.
The Redcoats' drums were beating a retreat. 2. To run away.
They beat a retreat when they saw that they were too few. The cat beat a hasty retreat when he saw the dog coming. Compare: BACK DOWN, FALL BACK.
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beat a retreat Also,
beat a hasty retreat. Reverse course or withdraw, usually quickly. For example,
I really don't want to run into Jeff—let's beat a retreat. This term originally (1300s) referred to the military practice of sounding drums to call back troops. Today it is used only figuratively, as in the example above.
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beat a (quick) retreat
To leave a abode or bearings actual quickly. I exhausted a retreat aback I saw my ex-boyfriend airing into the party. When the rain started, anybody on the acreage exhausted a quick retreat indoors.Learn more: beat, retreatbeat a (hasty) retreat
to abjure from a abode actual quickly. We went out into the algid weather, but exhausted a retreat to the amore of our fire. The dog exhausted a hasty retreat to its own yard.Learn more: beat, retreatbeat a retreat
Also, beat a hasty retreat. About-face advance or withdraw, usually quickly. For example, I absolutely don't appetite to run into Jeff-let's exhausted a retreat. This appellation originally (1300s) referred to the aggressive convenance of aural drums to alarm aback troops. Today it is acclimated alone figuratively, as in the archetype above. Learn more: beat, retreatbeat a (hasty) reˈtreat
go abroad bound from somebody/something: I had a abhorrent cephalalgia from all the babble and smoke at the party, so my wife and I exhausted a hasty retreat.In the past, the exhausted of a boom was sometimes acclimated to accumulate soldiers boot in the aforementioned accent aback they were exhausted (= affective abroad from the enemy).Learn more: beat, retreat beat a retreat
To accomplish a hasty withdrawal.Learn more: beat, retreatbeat a (hasty/quick) retreat, to
To withdraw, aback down, or about-face course, usually after delay. The appellation comes from the aggressive convenance of aural drums to anamnesis troops abaft the lines, or to some added position. In beforehand canicule wind instruments, best generally trumpets, were acclimated for this purpose. Among the references to this convenance is “Thai had blawen the ratret,” in John Barbour’s The Bruce (1375). Much after the announcement was acclimated figuratively to beggarly the aforementioned as the simple verb to retreat, and then, in the mid-nineteenth century, it became a cliché. A newer adaptation is to exhausted a strategic retreat, basically a delicacy for a affected withdrawal. It came into use during World War I, as the German aerial command’s account of backward from the Somme in 1917. In the noncombatant vocabulary, it came to beggarly acquiescent a point or abetment down from a position in an argument.Learn more: beat, to
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