Meter Phrases

Phrases

• A stick to beat you with
• Beat It (Michael (Jackson song)
• Beat a hasty retreat
• Beat a path to your door
• Beat about the bush
• Beat hell out of
• Beat hollow
• Beat it!
• Beat someone black and blue
• Beat swords into ploughshares
• Beat the air
• Beat the band
• Beat the bushes
• Beat the clock
• Beat the living crap out of
• Beat the living daylights out of
• Beat the living snot out of
• Beat the pants off
• Beat the rap
• Beat the retreat
• Beat the rush
• Beat the snot out of
• Beat the stuffing out of
• Beat to a pulp
• Beat up
• Beat you to it
• Beat your brains out
• Beat your meat
• Behind the beat
• Bitch slap (a full swing slap in the face intended to be humiliating)
• Brow beat
• Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door
• Fascinatin' Rhythm (George Gershwin song)
• Feed the meter
• Get into the swing of it
• I Got Rhythm (George Gershwin song)
• I'll swing for you
• If you can't beat em, join em
• In full swing
• In the swing
• It don't mean a thing if it ain't got swing
• Meter maid
• My heart missed a beat
• No room to swing a cat
• Off beat
• On the beat
• Sultan of Swing (Nickname of Wasim Akram - Pakistani cricketer)
• Swing both ways
• Swing by (slang expression meaning drop in for a visit)
• Swing for the fences (A baseball expression meaning try for a substantial gain)
• Swing in the wind
• Swing the lead
• Take a swing at
• Take cuts at someone (A baseball expression meaning taking a verbal swing or striking a blow at a reputation)
• The King of Swing (Nickname of Benny Goodman)
• The Mersey beat
• The beat goes on
• The bobby on the beat
• To beat the band
• Up the tempo
• Walking to the beat of a different drummer