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To beat up and down

tɪ bit əp ənd daʊn
Two performances on one plate. On the top picture the scourging of Christ. Two men beat him with a scourge. On the bottom image the mockery of Christ. Christ, dressed in a robe, is given a crown of thorns on his head and the men mock him. Above the images the reference to the Bible text in Dutch and French. Marked bottom left: 46.
Two performances on one plate. On the top picture the scourging of Christ. Two men beat him with a scourge. On the bottom image the mockery of Christ. Christ, dressed in a robe, is given a crown of thorns on his head and the men mock him. Above the images the reference to the Bible text in Dutch and French. Marked bottom left: 46.
Illustrations
A young woman plays theorbo while a man in a hat sets the beat. There is sheet music on the music stand of the piano she is sitting on.
A young woman plays theorbo while a man in a hat sets the beat. There is sheet music on the music stand of the piano she is sitting on.
Teiresias beats two mating snakes in a forest. Then he turned into a woman. Seven years later, he turned back into a male, after striking two mating snakes again; this can be seen in the background on the left. Two lines of Latin text below the image. This print is part of a series of 52 prints depicting stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses. This series is divided into three numbered series: two of 20 prints and one of 12 prints. This print belongs to the third series.
Teiresias beats two mating snakes in a forest. Then he turned into a woman. Seven years later, he turned back into a male, after striking two mating snakes again; this can be seen in the background on the left. Two lines of Latin text below the image. This print is part of a series of 52 prints depicting stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses. This series is divided into three numbered series: two of 20 prints and one of 12 prints. This print belongs to the third series.
Ladon guards the garden of the Hesperides. Hercules beats him with his club. Sheet 76 recto from a 91-sheet sketchbook.
Ladon guards the garden of the Hesperides. Hercules beats him with his club. Sheet 76 recto from a 91-sheet sketchbook.
A farmer beats an ox with a hammer. In the foreground, two dogs are running away. The fable describes how, during a harsh winter, a farmer slaughters his trekos for food. His two dogs then flee from the farm for fear of their own lives. The moral of the story teaches that a wise man recognizes danger in time.
A farmer beats an ox with a hammer. In the foreground, two dogs are running away. The fable describes how, during a harsh winter, a farmer slaughters his trekos for food. His two dogs then flee from the farm for fear of their own lives. The moral of the story teaches that a wise man recognizes danger in time.
Christ is being judged by High Priest Caiaphas (Matthew 26: 57-68). A soldier tries to beat him for his silence. The print has a Latin caption. The print is part of a series about the life of Christ.
Christ is being judged by High Priest Caiaphas (Matthew 26: 57-68). A soldier tries to beat him for his silence. The print has a Latin caption. The print is part of a series about the life of Christ.
Christ is mocked by the soldiers in prison. He is blindfolded and bound. Soldiers beat, mock, and humiliate him. The print is part of a thirty-volume series with prints about the fall and Christ's passion.
Christ is mocked by the soldiers in prison. He is blindfolded and bound. Soldiers beat, mock, and humiliate him. The print is part of a thirty-volume series with prints about the fall and Christ's passion.
In a landscape with remains of Roman ruins, Saint Jerome kneels on the ground and beats himself with a stone. His cloak and cardinal's hat lie on a stone wall. It rests on a skull. The lion's symbol is at the top of a low staircase and licks its paws.
In a landscape with remains of Roman ruins, Saint Jerome kneels on the ground and beats himself with a stone. His cloak and cardinal's hat lie on a stone wall. It rests on a skull. The lion's symbol is at the top of a low staircase and licks its paws.
Christ beats the merchants out of the temple with a bundle of sticks. On the right a man falling over a low table and a man with a large burlap bag. In the front left a man on his knees by a money bag. In the background cattle traders with an ox and pigeons.
Christ beats the merchants out of the temple with a bundle of sticks. On the right a man falling over a low table and a man with a large burlap bag. In the front left a man on his knees by a money bag. In the background cattle traders with an ox and pigeons.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. To beat up and down
    (Hunting) to run first one way and then another; -- said of a stag.
Usage in the news

For example, you always pick someone up if he falls down, and you have to beat up anyone who gropes the rare but totally awesome female who ventures in. sfweekly.com

The Texas Attorney General's Office and the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office have teamed up to crack down on dead-beat parents. team4news.com

Usage in scientific papers

In zero field, up and down spins relax equally; upon application of a field, the lifting of the Zeeman degeneracy gives rise to a varying polarization that reflects quantum beating between the Zeeman-split spin levels. A detailed theory of these effects remain to be developed.
Some Recent Issues in Quantum Magnetism

Usage in literature

My heart came beating up to my throat and then, just as I thought I should choke, it slid down to my boots, sickening me. "In the Bishop's Carriage" by Miriam Michelson

These thoughts drove him to tramp a beat up and down the pavement before the Hilberys' gate. "Night and Day" by Virginia Woolf

Perhaps his patient would try to beat him down, and Doctor Benjamin made up his mind to have the whole or nothing. "The Poet at the Breakfast Table" by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Up and down the cave and out and in he stamped, beating his hands to bring back the blood and fighting hard to get back his nerve. "Corporal Cameron" by Ralph Connor

Her heart, which, at the sight of him, had set up a glad and violent beating, settled down again at once, to its normal course. "Maurice Guest" by Henry Handel Richardson

I can beat up these two prospectors and ship 'em in to the hospital until things cool down. "The Iron Trail" by Rex Beach

She gave me very good words, and begged me to go: And I got up; but my knees beat so against one another, I was forced to sit down again. "Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded" by Samuel Richardson

Why, I hardly have time to look in the paper, and see who's gone up, and who's gone down, and who's been beat. "Romance of California Life" by John Habberton

Sheets were trimmed flat aft, and all settled down to beating up the coast. "Bowdoin Boys in Labrador" by Jonathan Prince Cilley, Jr.

The sun was beating down warm and strong, as if anxious to make up for his past neglect. "The Great War As I Saw It" by Frederick George Scott

Usage in poetry
There was Morphine Sue and the Poppy Face Kid,
Climbed up snow ladders and down they skid;
There was the Stepladder Kit, a good six feet,
And the Sleigh-riding Sister who were hard to beat.
"Cocaine Lil and Morphine Sue" by W H Auden Author object (678)
Books, friendships, philosophers, priests, action, pleasure, pride,
beat up and down, seeking to give satisfaction;
He indicates the satisfaction, and indicates them that beat up and
down also.
"Now List To My Morning's Romanza" by Walt Whitman Author object (680)
Beat the knife on the plate and the fork on the can,
For we’re going in to dinner, so make all the noise you can,
Up and down the officer wanders, looking blue,
Sing a song to cheer him up, he wants his dinner too.
"Going in to Dinner" by Edward Shanks