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"text": "If anyone wondered why the liner went straight at the panzerschiff, Fegen's reasoning was clear. The 11-inch guns could hit him at long range, but the short-barrelled 6-inch on his own ship couldn't range out quite as far. So, to start beating up Admiral Scheer, he had to get closer.",
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"ref": "1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 2:",
"text": "At breach of wall, or hedge surprise, / She shared i' th' hazard, and the prize: / At beating quarters up, or forage, / Behaved herself with matchless courage",
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"ref": "1770, John Belfour, A New History of Scotland, pages 137–138:",
"text": "On this occasion, the diligent prior o St. Andrews assembled 600 horse, with which he assailed the French, beat up their quarters, intercepted their provisions, and cut off their straggling parties.",
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"ref": "1777 June 7, Anthony Wayne, letter to Sharp Delany from the Camp at Mount Prospect 7th June 1777, in 1893, Charles Stillé, Major-General Anthony Wayne and the Pennsylvania Line in the Continental Army, page 6",
"text": "Our people are daily gaining Health Spirits and Discipline — the spade & pick axe throw'd aside — for the British Rebels to take up — they notwithstanding affect to hold us cheap and threaten to beat up our Quarters — if we don’t beat up theirs first which is in Contemplation, this in time."
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"ref": "1839, Jean Froissart, chapter CXXVI, in Thomas Johnes, transl., Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and The adjoining Countries, page 367:",
"text": "\"We know for certain that their army does not consist of more than three thousand men, including all sorts.\" Sir Henry Percy, on hearing this, was greatly rejoiced, and cried out, \"To horse! to horse! for by the faith I owe my God, and to my lord and father, I will seek to recover my pennon, and to beat up their quarters this night.\"",
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"ref": "1948, F. Spencer Chapman, The Jungle Is Neutral, published 2003, pages 272–275:",
"text": "Pa Blanken tells me that the Japs beat up our camp a month ago and we have lost all our heavy gear and moved up into the hills - he does not know where. Hell! No casualties, however. [...] Our material losses were very serious. The Japs had found a rucksack containing all our money, our medicines, including all our vital quinine, a copy of our signals plan, and a number of maps. […] It seems probable that the Japs spotted our camp from the air. They certainly knew its exact position and came straight to it.",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "military: to repeatedly bomb a target",
"word": "kurittaa"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to get something done",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "nautical: to sail to windward",
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"ref": "2008, Josh Frank, Charlie Buckholtz, In Heaven Everything Is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of New Wave Theatre, page 243:",
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"ref": "1995 September, David Jones, “1000 Users on a 486”, in AUUG ′95 & Asia-Pacific World Wide Web ′95 Conference & Exhibition: Conference Proceedings, page 106:",
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"ref": "2007, Pauline Nguyen, Luke Nguyen, Mark Jensen, Secrets of the Red Lantern: Stories and Vietnamese Recipes from the Heart, page 189:",
"text": "Media beat-ups and xenophobia are nothing new to the Vietnamese people.",
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"ref": "2009, Ken Gelder, Paul Salzman, After The Celebration: Australian Fiction 1989-2007, page 95:",
"text": "These debates can be difficult to navigate and are all too easily reduced to simplistic reflections of individual taste and vulnerable to journalistic beat-ups.",
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"text": "2009, Newstalk ZB, Hydro project claims \"a beat up\" - Brownlee, Newstalk ZB."
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