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1 beat hollow
(to beat thoroughly at a game etc: The local team were beaten hollow by eight goals to one on Saturday.) popolnoma premagati -
2 hollow
['holəu] 1. adjective1) (having an empty space in it: a hollow tree; Bottles, pipes and tubes are hollow.) votel2) ((of a sound) strangely deep, as if made in something hollow: a hollow voice.) votel2. noun1) (something hollow: hollows in her cheeks.) jamica2) (a small valley; a dip in the ground: You can't see the farm from here because it's in a hollow.) globel•- beat hollow
- hollow out* * *I [hɔlou]adjectivevotel, prazen, vdrt; lačen; votel (glas); figuratively prazen, plitek, neiskren, nepristenII [hɔlou]adverbvotlo; popolnomato beat s.o. hollow — koga popolnoma premagatiIII [hɔlou]nounvotlina, luknja, jamato have s.o. in the hollow of one's hand — imeti koga v pestiIV [hɔlou]transitive verbizdolbsti ( out) -
3 beat
past tense; see beat* * *I [bi:t]nounudarec; bitje, utrip; nihanje (nihala); music ritem, takt; korak; območje, stroka, delokrog, revir, rajon; obhodna straža; American slang časopisna senzacija; American slang lenuh, postopačthat is not my beat, that is off ( —ali out of) my beat — to ni moja stroka, s tem se ne ukvarjam; to me ne zanimaII [bi:t]1.transitive verbtolči; udariti, udarjati; biti; utrti, utirati; premagati, prekositi, prekašati; (o)slepariti; obleteti; zbegati;2.intransitive verbbiti, utripati; mlatiti; trkati; taktirati; prebijati se; nautical laviratito beat the air — zaman se truditi, prazno slamo mlatitito beat the breast — trkati se po prsih, obžalovatidead beat — na smrt utrujen, onemogelto beat hollow (to smithereens, sticks, nothing, all to pieces, to ribands) dodobra premagatibeat it! — poberi se!to beat time — voditi, dirigirati, taktiratiAmerican slang can you beat it? — to je nezaslišano, kakšna predrznost!American slang to beat it — zbežati, popihati joIII [bi:t]preteriteod beat 2; adjective izčrpan
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beat\ all\ 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
hollow — ► ADJECTIVE 1) having a hole or empty space inside. 2) concave. 3) (of a sound) echoing. 4) lacking significance or sincerity. ► NOUN 1) a hole or depression. 2) a small valley … English terms dictionary