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beat the rap 的定义

  1. Escape punishment; win acquittal. For example, The youngsters were caught shoplifting, but somehow they were able to beat the rap. The rap in this idiom means “the legal charge against one.” [Slang; 1920s]

beat the rap 近义词

v. 动词 verb

escape without penalty

更多beat the rap例句

  1. France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
  2. Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
  3. Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
  4. He beat his illness twice, wrote about his battles with the disease, and continued broadcasting even as his health was failing.
  5. It went into remission, but it would resurface in 2011; and Scott was able to beat it once again.
  6. Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
  7. Even if poverty were gone, the flail could still beat hard enough upon the grain and chaff of humanity.
  8. His face flushed with annoyance, and taking off his soft hat he began to beat it impatiently against his leg as he walked.
  9. The pulse in Louis's temples beat hard; yet he was determined not to anticipate, but make Wharton explain himself.
  10. To be sure, he hadn't seen Mrs. Robin go, but he had heard the beat of her wings as she began her flight.