take some beating

take some beating (third-person singular simple present takes some beating, present participle taking some beating, simple past took some beating, past participle taken some beating)

1. To be difficult to beat; to be difficult to do better than.

• Not to be confused with take a beating.

• take some doing

• “take some beating”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “take some beating” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
• “take some beating”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.