(intransitive, chiefly, UK) To appear implausible or unbelievable.
(intransitive, chiefly, UK) To appear implausible or unbelievable.
In Shakespeare's day boys or men took the part of women, and how characters like Lady Macbeth and Desdemona were adequately rendered by youths beggars belief.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(UK, idiom, slang, obsolete) To follow up something good with something inferior.