beat\ hollow

beat\ hollow
• beat all hollow
• beat hollow
v. phr. slang
To do much better than; to beat very badly.

We beat their team all hollow.

As a speaker, he beats us all hollow.


Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". . 1997.

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