beat someone's time

Verb

 * 1)  To make advances toward someone's romantic partner.
 * He was trying to beat my time with my girl.
 * 1) * 1899, Felix E. Alley, "Ballad of Kidder Cole", in Roaming the Mountains with John A. Parris, John Parris, 1955
 * I was to dance with Kidder the livelong night / But got my time beat by Charley Wright. / If I ever have to have a fight / I hope it will be with Charley Wright; / For he was the ruin of my soul / When he beat my time with Kidder Cole / (missing stanzas including one about Kidder going to South Carolina) / But she came back the following spring / And oh, how I made my banjo ring; / It helped me get my spirit right, / To beat the time of Charley Wright.
 * I was to dance with Kidder the livelong night / But got my time beat by Charley Wright. / If I ever have to have a fight / I hope it will be with Charley Wright; / For he was the ruin of my soul / When he beat my time with Kidder Cole / (missing stanzas including one about Kidder going to South Carolina) / But she came back the following spring / And oh, how I made my banjo ring; / It helped me get my spirit right, / To beat the time of Charley Wright.