match beat for beat

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match beat for beat (third-person singular simple present matches beat for beat, present participle matching beat for beat, simple past and past participle matched beat for beat)

  1. To match identically
    • 2023 July 5, Murtada Elfadl, “Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One review: Tom Cruise runs, jumps, and delivers again”, in AV Club[1]:
      Her banter with Cruise comes with wily amusement. She’s not intimidated by him; in fact, she matches him beat for beat and when the action moves to that long car chase scene she actually outmaneuvers him.