beat someone's time

短语

词形变化

beaten someone's time beating someone's time beats someone's time 三单 beats someone's time beating someone's time 现在分词 beaten someone's time 过去式 beaten someone's time 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beat, time.

  2. 2.

    To make advances toward someone's romantic partner.

    非正式

    He was trying to beat my time with my girl.

    I was to dance with Kidder the livelong night / But got my time beat by Charley Wright. / If I ever have to have a fight / I hope it will be with Charley Wright; / For he was the ruin of my soul / When he beat my time with Kidder Cole / (missing stanzas including one about Kidder going to South Carolina) / But she came back the following spring / And oh, how I made my banjo ring; / It helped me get my spirit right, / To beat the time of Charley Wright.