Idiom
skip a beat
Meaning
To momentarily falter.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“She played the song perfectly without skipping a beat.”
“Even when the interviewer asked a difficult question, he answered without skipping a beat.”
“The seasoned performer navigated the technical failure on stage with such grace that she did not skip a beat.”
Examples
simple
“She played the song perfectly without skipping a beat.”
contextual
“Even when the interviewer asked a difficult question, he answered without skipping a beat.”
complex
“The seasoned performer navigated the technical failure on stage with such grace that she did not skip a beat.”
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