Beat
Beat verb - To achieve a victory over.
Usage example: she always beats everyone at checkers, but she's not as good at chess
Go down
Go down verb - To take place.
Both terms in one sentence
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Without missing a beat, Creed snarks back to Laura that he'll go down any time she likes.
Source: Comic Book / Death of Wolverine - So the mother had to go down to the grave and beat the child's hand to get her to stop reaching up.
Source: Nightmare Fuel / Literature -
However, he does go down rather easy once Superboy and Miss Martian work together to beat him up, making it a bit of an inversion of the other examples; he's extremely intelligent, and is a Badass Normal, but he's obviously outclassed by the two super-powered aliens.
Source: Never Live It Down / Comic Books
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