beating up


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beating up

n (beatings up (pl)) to give sb a beating uppestare qn
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Louis Woman, from the oozing elegance of Peter Martins's Thou Swell at New York City Ballet to the tantalizing surrender of Alessandra Ferri in American Ballet theatre's Manon, the action on the ballet stage is beating up.
It's already hard for union activists to remember the exhilaration of beating UPS last August.