beyond belief

English

Prepositional phrase

beyond belief

  1. To an extreme or unbelievable degree.
    • 1951, Robert Peter Tristram Coffin, On the green carpet:
      Their trunks were gnarled beyond belief, like those in fairybooks. They were covered with the cuneiform of woodpeckers and yellowhammers.
    • 2006, Carol Snow, Been There, Done That:
      Once he even turned up at our aerobics class, clad in a muscle shirt and royal blue spandex shorts, which yucked me out beyond belief.
    • 2007, Dan Clark, The Thrill of Teaching, →ISBN, page 61:
      My name is General Robinson Risner. I was the highest-ranking prisoner-of-war in the Vietnam War. I spent seven years locked up in solitary confinement. I was tortured beyond belief. I limp because of it. Today I still have a hole in the front of my skull from the Chinese water torture inflicted on me.
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