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beat the air
Idioms and Phrases
Also, beat the wind . Continue to make futile attempts, fight to no purpose. For example, The candidates for office were so much alike that we thought our vote amounted to beating the air . These phrases call up a vivid image of someone flailing away at nothing. [Late 1300s]Example Sentences
The Pro beat the Air by 10 seconds in the Xcode Benchmark.
Leathery wings beat the air above them.
In a more realistic test, the 14-inch MacBook Pro doesn’t beat the Air — those numbers didn’t make it onstage That point is backed up by the fact that Apple’s more realistic wireless web test tells a very different story.
“Helicopters beat the air into submission.”
Helicopters beat the air, and the buzz of chain saws echoed from the canyons.
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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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