pounded a beat
Covered assigned territory
Pounded a beat describes a police officer patrolling an assigned route on foot.
The beat is the territory; pounding it refers to the steady footwork of walking the same streets regularly: He pounded a beat in Brooklyn for twenty years before making detective.
The phrase evokes old-fashioned neighborhood policing before patrol cars became standard.
- hard workSustained strenuous effort
- city streetsPaved routes through towns
- foot patrolOn-foot police monitoring
- police officerLaw enforcement agent
- thin blue lineMetaphor for police
law enforcement · patrol · constable · precinct · community policing · diligence · perseverance · sidewalks · drumbeat · alleys · flat feet · cadence · night shift · graveyard shift · night watch · resolve · endurance · intersections
pounded a beatdesk duty
Work stationed at furniture
office work · desk job · desk jockey · paper pusher · detective work
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