don't that beat all

English

Alternative forms

• if that don't beat all

Interjection

don't that beat all?

1. (Canada, US, informal) Expressing great wonder or surprise.
   • 2012, Earl Cooke, Redemption of a Dark Hero, page 26:

     Don't that beat all? A grown thirty-year-old with the measles!

Usage notes

Often preceded by well: "well, don't that beat all!".

See also

• giddy limit
• last straw
• take the cake, take the biscuit