Emotions & feelings
beat yourself up about something
criticise yourself too much
If you beat yourself up about something, you blame yourself repeatedly and too harshly for it.
Hear it in real life
I should have prepared better for the interview.
Don't beat yourself up; you can learn from it.
I made a silly error at work, but I am trying not to beat myself up about it.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: I beat up myself about the mistake.
Say: I beat myself up about the mistake.
Keep the reflexive pronoun after "beat" in this fixed phrasal expression.
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How it fits in a sentence.
beat yourself up about something; don't beat yourself up
Your turn: say it out loud
I made a silly error at work, but I am trying not to beat myself up about it.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
beat yourself up about something
criticise yourself too much
“I made a silly error at work, but I am trying not to beat myself up about it.”
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