Emotions & feelings
beat yourself up
criticise yourself harshly
If you beat yourself up, you blame or criticise yourself too much for something.
Hear it in real life
I should have checked the address.
Don't beat yourself up; anyone could have made that mistake.
I made one small mistake, but I am trying not to beat myself up about it.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: Don't beat up yourself about it.
Say: Don't beat yourself up about it.
With this idiom, the reflexive pronoun comes between “beat” and “up.”
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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 one small mistake, 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
criticise yourself harshly
“I made one small mistake, but I am trying not to beat myself up about it.”
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