Off
the Beating Path
yet Close to the Fun
(A selection of beat-up phrases from David Tuggy’s blooper collection)
- He doesn’t beat any bones about it.
- I know we don’t want to beat a dead bush.
- Am I just beating a dead horse to death?
- You’re beating a dead straw horse when
it’s down.
- Not to beat a dying bush, but that yard looks ugly.
- We were trying to beat down all the doors that we
could.
- My dad used to beat me over a stick.
- He sort of beat that thru the bush.
- [I don’t want to go to that meeting:] They
beat stuff
like a dead horse in there.
- I don’t want to beat the bandwagon. [= blow
my own
horn]
- You don’t go around beating the bush.
- That beats the cake!
- Another one beats the dust!
- [He] beats to a different drum.
- She beats to a different drummer.
- He beats to his own drum.
- He could beat us with both brains tied behind our
back.
- They keep beating us around the bush.
- We don’t need to beat ourselves on the
back.
- We keep beating heads.
- It’s not too fancy but it beats a stick.
- [He] turned beat red, jugular veins popping out on
his neck.
- It’s no use beating dead wood.
- I bet you! [after winning a Nintendo game]
- Don’t beat yourself with a dead stick.
- He got beaten the snot out of.
- He keeps beating his head against a dead horse.
- That’s where the rubber beats the road.
