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Definition of Beat a retreat
1. Verb. Depart hastily.
Definition of Beat a retreat
1. Verb. (idiomatic) To leave hastily in the face of opposition. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beat A Retreat
Literary usage of Beat a retreat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"... more of those bargains would lower the stock of Howe & Co., so that they would
be obliged to keep close, or beat a retreat.1 THE EXPEDITION TO DANBURY. ..."
2. The history of the French revolution, tr. with notes by F. Shoberl by Thomas Carlyle, Marie Joseph L. Adolphe Thiers (1838)
"That terrible battle was won, when the left wing gave way and recrossed the Gette:
it became necessary to beat a retreat, and we lost the Netherlands in a ..."
3. Choice Readings for Public and Private Entertainments: And for the Use of edited by Robert McLean Cumnock (1898)
"As the columns halted, Napoleon shouted to him: "beat a retreat!" The boy did
not stir. "Gamin, beat a retreat!" The boy stopped, grasped his drumsticks, ..."
4. The Diary of the Revolution: A Centennial Volume Embracing the Current by Frank Moore (1876)
"... more of those bargains would lower the stock of Howe & Co., so that they would
be obliged to keep close, or beat a retreat.' THE EXPEDITION TO DANBURY. ..."
5. School and College Speaker by Wilmot Brookings Mitchell (1901)
"As the columns halted, Napoleon shouted to him: " beat a retreat!" The boy did
not stir. "Gamin, beat a retreat! " The boy stopped, grasped his drumsticks, ..."
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