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Idioms and Phrases

Defy or outdo any possible description, as in The stage set was so elaborate, it beggared description . This term, alluding to the idea that words are insufficient to do something justice, was already used by Shakespeare in Antony and Cleopatra (2:2), “For her own person It beggared all description.”
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Example Sentences

It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad.

The sufferings endured by the poor Highlanders in the succeeding winter truly beggar description.

The scene that followed would beggar description—drinking, dancing, shouting, that made the Byannah Pass echo again!

I will not describe my years of happiness with my noble wife; such years beggar description.

Behind the two heroic combats scenes were occurring which beggar description.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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