"Beat a retreat" nghĩa là gì?

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'Beat a (hasty) retreat' = đánh trống ra lệnh rút lui -> nghĩa là rút khỏi một nơi nào đó hay tình huống nào đó một cách nhanh chóng.

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But this view soon encountered increasing hostility (thái độ thù địch) among his compatriots (đồng bào) and forced him to beat a retreat into a patriotic (yêu nước) thinking that celebrated French philosophical traditions alone.

The person in question had the grace to hunt mortified (làm xấu hổ, làm mất thể diện) at being caught pawing at strangers’ dresses and snappy and wordlessly beat a retreat. She is at menace (sự đe dọa, phiền hà) of be viewed scampering across the avenue decrease than a minute later.

Regional heavyweights China, Indian, Taiwan and South Korean currencies are all likely to feel the full force of the spike in oil prices today, being massive net energy importers. Other regional markets will not be spared though as investors beat a retreat from more volatile developing markets.

In some brilliant refereeing by Herb Dean, he did not allow the fight to continue and immediately after the allotted (được giao) five minutes were done, he ended the fight as a 'No Contest'. There was an immense surge of the displeasure of the crowd, who threw whatever they could into the Octagon, the officials, as well as at Jeremy Stephens, who beat a hasty retreat.


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