beat off with a stick

verb

To reject (a person making an unwanted amorous approach).

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Meanings

verbbeat off with a stick (third-person singular simple present beats off with a stick, present participle beating off with a stick, simple past beat off with a stick, past participle beaten off with a stick)

present singular third person beats off with a stick · participle present beating off with a stick · participle past beaten off with a stick

  1. idiomaticinformaltransitiveTo reject (a person making an unwanted amorous approach).

    He probably had more women than he could beat off with a stick. His kind always did.

    2019, K. A. Ray, Racing Hearts
    2 more examples

    I mentioned that while pictures from my teens and twenties showed I was pretty cute, somehow I'd never attracted many guys, while my (no-less-adorable) kid sister had to beat them off with a stick.

    2006, Tony Attwood, Temple Grandin, Asperger's and Girls

    After about sixteen weeks, Clemmie obviously took a swim in a hormone bath because suddenly she was all over me like a rash that no ointment could cure – I couldn't beat her off with a stick so we had sex.

    2018, Simon Hooper, Dadlife
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