"take some beating" meaning in All languages combined

See take some beating on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: takes some beating [present, singular, third-person], taking some beating [participle, present], took some beating [past], taken some beating [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|<,,took,taken>}} take some beating (third-person singular simple present takes some beating, present participle taking some beating, simple past took some beating, past participle taken some beating)
  1. To be difficult to beat; to be difficult to do better than. Related terms: take some doing Translations (Translations): olla hankala lyödä (Finnish), być trudny do pokonania [imperfective] (Polish)

Inflected forms

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