BEAT ONE'S BREAST

Meaning of BEAT ONE'S BREAST in English

phrasal

or beat one's chest

: to declaim often vaingloriously or vauntingly and usually in vindicating oneself

Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012

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ONE — I. |wən adjective Etymology: Middle English oon, on, from Old English ān; akin to Old High German ein one, Old …
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BREAST — (v. t.) To meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves.
Английский словарь Webster
BREAST — (n.) Anything resembling the human breast, or bosom; the front or forward part of anything; as, a chimney breast; a …
Английский словарь Webster
BREAST — ( v. t. ) To meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
BREAST — ( n. ) Anything resembling the human breast, or bosom; the front or forward part of anything; as, a chimney …
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ONE — /wun/ , adj. 1. being or amounting to a single unit or individual or entire thing, item, or object rather …
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ONE — I. ˈwən adjective Etymology: Middle English on, an, from Old English ān; akin to Old High German ein one, Latin …
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BREAST — I. ˈbrest noun Etymology: Middle English brest, from Old English brēost; akin to Old High German brust breast, Old Irish …
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BEAT — I. ˈbēt verb ( beat ; beat·en ˈbē-t ə n ; or beat ; beat·ing ) Etymology: Middle English beten, …
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BREAST — noun the front of a furnace. 2. breast ·noun the face of a coal working. 3. breast ·noun a torus. …
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BREAST — [breast] n [ME brest, fr. OE breost; akin to OHG brust breast, OIr bru belly, Russ bryukho] (bef. 12c) 1: …
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BEAT — [beat] vb beat ; beat.en or beat ; beat.ing [ME beten, fr. OE beatan; akin to OHG bozan to beat] …
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BEAT — Wave graphs illustrating how beat notes are produced by two different frequencies in physics, the pulsation caused by the combination …
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ONE — I. one 1 S1 W1 /wʌn/ BrE AmE number 1 . the number 1: They had one daughter. one hundred …
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ONE — adj., n., & pron. --adj. 1 single and integral in number. 2 (with a noun implied) a single person or …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
BREAST — n. & v. --n. 1 a either of two milk-secreting organs on the upper front of a woman's body. b …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
BEAT — v., n., & adj. --v. (past beat; past part. beaten) 1 tr. a strike (a person or animal) persistently or …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
ONE — adj., n., & pron. adj. 1 single and integral in number. 2 (with a noun implied) a single person or …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
BREAST — n. & v. n. 1 a either of two milk-secreting organs on the upper front of a woman's body. b …
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BEAT — v., n., & adj. v. (past beat; past part. beaten) 1 tr. a strike (a person or animal) persistently or …
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ONE — adj., n., & pron. --adj. 1. single and integral in number. 2 (with a noun implied) a single person or …
Oxford English vocab
BREAST — n. & v. --n. 1. a either of two milk-secreting organs on the upper front of a woman's body. b …
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BEAT — v., n., & adj. --v. (past beat; past part. beaten) 1. tr. a strike (a person or animal) persistently or …
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ONE — ( ones) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. One is the number …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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Cambridge English vocab
BEAT — (MOVEMENT) [verb] [past simple] beat, [past participle] beaten or beat - to (cause to) make a regular movement or soundAlthough …
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Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
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BREAST — noun 1 part of a woman's body ADJECTIVE ▪ ample , big , enormous , full , heavy , large …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
BEAT — n. 25B6; verb they were beaten with truncheons : HIT, strike, batter, thump, bang, hammer, punch, knock, thrash, pound, pummel, …
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BEAT — v. 1 strike, pound, bash, smite, batter, pummel or pommel, belabour, pelt, clout, thrash, give (someone) a thrashing or beating, …
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BREAST — Glandular organ located on the chest. The breast is made up of connective tissue, fat, and breast tissue that contains …
NCI English Dictionary of Cancer Terms
ONE — pronoun 1 BAD : Fluency in English is one of the best qualifications you can have. GOOD : Fluency in …
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Большой Англо-Русский словарь
BREAST — 1. сущ. 1) грудь; молочная железа to give the breast, have the breast, put to the breast ≈ дать грудь, …
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Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
BREAST — breast.ogg 1. brest n 1. 1> грудь breast milk - материнское /грудное/ молоко breast nipple - сосок a child at …
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BREAST — 1) горн. забой; поверхность (грудь) забоя; площадь забоя 2) низ ( балки, стропил, перил ) 3) подоконная стенка 4) выступ …
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BREAST — 1) горн. забой; поверхность (грудь) забоя; площадь забоя 2) низ (балки, стропил, перил) 3) подоконная стенка 4) выступ (в кладке) 5) лесн. сердцевидная поверхность …
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ONE — one числ. колич.1) один (число 1) one book — одна книга one million — один миллион one half — половина …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
BREAST — breast сущ.1) грудь; молочная железа to give the breast, have the breast, put to the breast — дать грудь, приложить …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
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Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
BREAST — 1. brest n 1. 1> грудь breast milk - материнское /грудное/ молоко breast nipple - сосок a child at the …
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