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December 29, 2004, 17:28
Caterwauller
Beat the Band
What's this about? Is this one going to turn out to be all about sex, too?


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December 30, 2004, 01:32
arnie
Not this time. The explanation is pretty mundane, alas.

From World Wide Words:
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I’m fairly sure that to beat the band originally meant that you sang or played or shouted louder even than an orchestra and so, by later extension, came to refer to anything superlative.



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