querbeet

Adv. umg.

1. all over the place; (querfeldein) across country; querbeet über die Felder laufen run across the fields in any old direction; jemanden querbeet durch die Stadt führen take s.o. all over town

2. fig. at random, indiscriminately; querbeet auswählen pick things out at random; querbeet alle Probleme erörtern go through the whole gamut of problems; sie hat querbeet gefragt in einer Prüfung: she covered the whole range (with her questions)

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quer|beet [kveːɐ'beːt, 'kveːɐbeːt]

adv (inf)

(= wahllos) at random; (= durcheinander) all over the place (inf); (= querfeldein) across country

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quer·beet

[kve:ɐ̯ˈbe:t]

adv (fam) all over

sie gingen einfach mal \querbeet durch die Landschaft they travelled all over [or the length and breadth of] the countryside

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querbeet adv umg

1. all over the place; (querfeldein) across country;

querbeet über die Felder laufen run across the fields in any old direction;

jemanden querbeet durch die Stadt führen take sb all over town

2. fig at random, indiscriminately;

querbeet auswählen pick things out at random;

querbeet alle Probleme erörtern go through the whole gamut of problems;

sie hat querbeet gefragt in einer Prüfung: she covered the whole range (with her questions)