"beat into fits" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "beats into fits",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beating into fits",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beat into fits",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beaten into fits",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "beat<,,beat,beaten> into fits"
      },
      "expansion": "beat into fits (third-person singular simple present beats into fits, present participle beating into fits, simple past beat into fits, past participle beaten into fits)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1845, Sporting Magazine, volume 5, page 378",
          "text": "I do not mean to say Sir Hercules could in a walk carry as much flour as a miller's horse; but he would beat him into fits, and bring him to a stand still, with 17st. on each of their backs in a gallop […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1886, Elizabeth Lynn Linton, Paston Carew, Millionaire and Miser, page 175",
          "text": "We shall be beaten into fits, for the child plays like an angel, as she does everything, and I am only a clumsy little imp, as you know.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To surpass or defeat utterly."
      ],
      "id": "en-beat_into_fits-en-verb-K6QPVxYH",
      "links": [
        [
          "surpass",
          "surpass"
        ],
        [
          "defeat",
          "defeat"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, slang) To surpass or defeat utterly."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "beat into fits"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "beats into fits",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beating into fits",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beat into fits",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beaten into fits",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "beat<,,beat,beaten> into fits"
      },
      "expansion": "beat into fits (third-person singular simple present beats into fits, present participle beating into fits, simple past beat into fits, past participle beaten into fits)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1845, Sporting Magazine, volume 5, page 378",
          "text": "I do not mean to say Sir Hercules could in a walk carry as much flour as a miller's horse; but he would beat him into fits, and bring him to a stand still, with 17st. on each of their backs in a gallop […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1886, Elizabeth Lynn Linton, Paston Carew, Millionaire and Miser, page 175",
          "text": "We shall be beaten into fits, for the child plays like an angel, as she does everything, and I am only a clumsy little imp, as you know.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To surpass or defeat utterly."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "surpass",
          "surpass"
        ],
        [
          "defeat",
          "defeat"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, slang) To surpass or defeat utterly."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "beat into fits"
}