kick the beam | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,archaic)To lack in weight, importance, or strength compared to another.1667,John Milton, “Book IV”, inParadise Lost.[…], London:[…][Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC, lines1004-1005:The latter quick up flew, andkick'd the beam; / Which Gabriel spying, thus bespake the Fiend.1846, John Greenleaf Whittier,The Pine-Tree(poem):Is the dollar only real? God and truth and right a dream?Weighed against your lying ledgers must our manhoodkick the beam?1918March 27, Ian Hay, “America At War”, inThe Times:To-day she is at war; she has no surplus resources; all her energy is concentrated on herself, and will be until she is ready and equipped for battle. When that happens—when her vast potential energy has been converted into dynamic energy—she will step heavily into that scale of the balance recently vacated by Russia, and Prussian militarism willkick the beam.

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EN: What she knows would be made to kick the beam against the erudition of a guinea-pig.
HI: बेबी बेली से छुटकारा कैसे पाएं
HI: लड़की इग्नोर करे तो क्या करना चाहिए

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