beat someone's time

present singular third person beats someone's time · participle present beating someone's time · participle past beaten someone's time

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beat, time.
2. informalusuallyTo make advances toward someone's romantic partner.

   He was trying to beat my time with my girl.

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   I was to dance with Kidder the livelong night / But got my time beat by Charley Wright. / If I ever have to have a fight / I hope it will be with Charley Wright; / For he was the ruin of my soul / When he beat my time with Kidder Cole / (missing stanzas including one about Kidder going to South Carolina) / But she came back the following spring / And oh, how I made my banjo ring; / It helped me get my spirit right, / To beat the time of Charley Wright.

   1899, Felix E. Alley, "Ballad of Kidder Cole", in Roaming the Mountains with John A. Parris, John Parris, 1955

   There's a hat-check girl at that cafe — a droopy, fat little blonde — who's trying to beat my time with him. And he's falling for it, the poor baby!

   1949, Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan, volume 126

   He said if Travis don't hurry up he's goin' to beat his time with you. We all got bets laid as to which one will get you to go on a real date first.

   2016, Carolyn Brown, Nicole Helm, Hell, Yeah / Outlaw Cowboy