on one's beam ends
English
Etymology
By analogy with a capsizing ship; see usage note at beam-ends.
Further reading
- “be on your beam ends”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- “on one's beam ends”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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